The
mention of “IRB” in many an anthropological setting in the United
States is likely to elicit sighs, groans, and widespread expressions of exasperation.
To U.S.-based colleagues and students, IRB has come to mean much more than “institutional
review board.” To many, the acronym signals an intrusion in the practice
of anthropological research and a submission to a biomedical conception of “human-subject
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