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Human rights, culture and context : anthropological perspectives / edited by Richard A. Wilson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropology, culture, and societyPublisher: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1997Description: 1 online resource (viii, 227 pages) : mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585372748
  • 9780585372747
Other title:
  • Human rights, culture & context [Cover title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human rights, culture and context.DDC classification:
  • 306.3 23
LOC classification:
  • JC571 .H76943 1997
Other classification:
  • 73.71
  • 86.81
Online resources:
Contents:
Human rights, culture and context : an introduction / Richard A. Wilson -- Legal pluralism and transnational culture : the Ka Ho'okolokolonui Kanaka Maoli Tribunal, Hawai'i, 1993 / Sally Engle Merry -- Multiculturalism, individualism and human rights : romanticism, the Enlightenment and lessons from Mauritius / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Liberalism, socio-economic rights and the politics of identity : from moral economy to indigenous rights / John Gledhill -- On torture, or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment / Talal Asad -- Representing human rights violations : social contexts and subjectivities / Richard A. Wilson -- Universal and sustainable human rights? Special tribunals in Guatemala / Jennifer Schirmer -- To whom should we listen? Human rights activism in two Guatemalan land disputes / David Stoll.
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Summary: "A world characterised by ethno-nationalist struggles, civil wars, and political violence has led anthropologists to examine in more detail the relationships between state violence, ideas about 'culture', and the activities of human rights organisations. The first coherent contextual study of its kind, Human Rights, Culture and Context moves beyond the conventional anthropological dichotomy of universalism versus cultural relativism by considering recent theoretical insights into the politics of identity and by tracing the concrete interconnections created by a globalisation of human rights." "Drawing on case studies from around the world - Guatemala, Mauritius, Hawai'i, Iran, the United States and Mexico - this collection documents how trans-national human rights discourses and legal institutions are materialised, imposed, resisted and trans-formed in a variety of contexts."--Jacket
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Human rights, culture and context : an introduction / Richard A. Wilson -- Legal pluralism and transnational culture : the Ka Ho'okolokolonui Kanaka Maoli Tribunal, Hawai'i, 1993 / Sally Engle Merry -- Multiculturalism, individualism and human rights : romanticism, the Enlightenment and lessons from Mauritius / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Liberalism, socio-economic rights and the politics of identity : from moral economy to indigenous rights / John Gledhill -- On torture, or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment / Talal Asad -- Representing human rights violations : social contexts and subjectivities / Richard A. Wilson -- Universal and sustainable human rights? Special tribunals in Guatemala / Jennifer Schirmer -- To whom should we listen? Human rights activism in two Guatemalan land disputes / David Stoll.

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"A world characterised by ethno-nationalist struggles, civil wars, and political violence has led anthropologists to examine in more detail the relationships between state violence, ideas about 'culture', and the activities of human rights organisations. The first coherent contextual study of its kind, Human Rights, Culture and Context moves beyond the conventional anthropological dichotomy of universalism versus cultural relativism by considering recent theoretical insights into the politics of identity and by tracing the concrete interconnections created by a globalisation of human rights." "Drawing on case studies from around the world - Guatemala, Mauritius, Hawai'i, Iran, the United States and Mexico - this collection documents how trans-national human rights discourses and legal institutions are materialised, imposed, resisted and trans-formed in a variety of contexts."--Jacket

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