Photographing Byron's Hand

Burkett, Andrew

doi:10.1080/10509585.2015.1004543

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A Cultural Complex Of Signatures and Forms1

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“…When one signs paper with a pen, the ink is an extension of a limb, a forensic trace of a unique bodily orientation and movement pattern. Signatures evoke a history of a cultural fascination with the flourishes, individualism, and distinctive subjectivity of artists (Burkett 2015) and, indeed, metonymically evoke the aura of the uniqueness of art (Benjamin 1968). According to the pseudoscience of graphology, signatures can be read semiotically for insights into the signer's personality and psyche (Poizner 2011).…”

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The Fetishes of Consent: Signatures, Paper, and Writing in Research Ethics Review

Wynn

Israel

2018

American Anthropologist

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Many ethics review bureaucracies present signed, written forms administered at a single point in time as the default, best-practice method for obtaining and documenting consent to participate in research. The demand is emblematic of ethics review committees' insistence on form over function, their failure to understand the cultural contexts of field research, and erroneous assumptions about research methods. Ethnographers responding to an international survey argued that written consent may not protect participants, may mask unethical research, and may often be inappropriate for legal, cultural, political or historical reasons. We suggest the dominance of written consent reflects culturally specific views of paper, writing, signatures, and contracts grounded in particular historical imaginations of the

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confidence: 99%