ABSTRACT
There is an ethical dimension to all professional relationships. Whether working in academic or applied settings, anthropologists have a responsibility to maintain respectful relationships with others. Anthropologists may gain personally from their work, but they must not exploit individuals, groups, animals, or cultural or biological materials. Since abolishing the adjudication process in 1995, the Committee on Ethics has had an educational mandate, and has, in the author's experience, done a good job. The mentoring relationship is crucial for the communication and modeling of ethical research and professionalism, and long the focus, though to varying degrees, of much attention across the sciences, and indeed currently, within people's own discipline. The relationships that people craft as professionals - with their students, colleagues, and peers and with other academics both in and outside their discipline and outside the academy - need careful and sustained attention.
