August 16, 2002

Anthropology and Ethics

To the Editor:

We stand by our description of the American Anthropological Association's investigation ("Anthropology and the Search for the Enemy Within," The Review, July 26). In Leslie E. Sponsel and Terence Turner's response to us ("Charges of Wrongdoing by Anthropologists," The Review, August 9), they fail to address the key issues we raised in our article: the inappropriateness of the investigation, the flawed investigative process, and the squandering of moral capital on a