section_path: Ethics
section_name: Ethics
paragraph_text: Ethics
  
  As the field has matured it has debated and arrived at ethical principles aimed at protecting both the subjects of anthropological research as well as the researchers themselves, and professional societies have generated codes of ethics.
  
  Anthropologists, like other researchers (especially historians and scientists engaged in field research), have over time assisted state policies and projects, especially colonialism.
  
  Some commentators have contended: