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Toward the end of my fi rst year as a PhD student, I participated in a graduate conference on research ethics and dilemmas that anthropologists encounter in the fi eld. My intended fi eld research, covering aspects of human rights, democratization, and social activism in Myanmar, had yet to take place.1 There was limited published academic guidance on how to conduct such research, and the few available ethnographic studies on politics and human rights in Myanmar came under such gloomy titles as “living silence” (Fink 2009) and “the politics of fear” (Skidmore 2004). I decided to use the conference as an opportunity to present some of the diffi culties I thought I might experience in the fi eld. While most of the topics raised during the conference led to interesting debates on how ethical dilemmas had been or could have been tackled, my presentation resulted in very critical remarks, and even the accusation that I was being unethical. It was suggested that my intended research would put local people in danger,

On Sensitivity and Secrecy: How Foreign Researchers and their Local Contacts in Myanmar Deal with Risk under Authoritarian Rule