During this round of Field Notes, we have invited four scholars to think through the implications of a turn toward ethics and morality in anthropology and to explore the paths down which ethics as a subject of inquiry has taken them in their research. How does a concern with ethics articulate with reconsiderations of epistemology and ontology? How do ethics become socially effective? How do we think an ethics which escapes the trap of what Elizabeth Povinelli calls “liberal empathy”?