Human rights : an anthropological reader

Human rights : an anthropological reader / edited by Mark Goodale.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Goodale, Mark
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Series:Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 10
Subjects:
Human rights.
Anthropological ethics.
Holy Cross Note:Graduating Student Library Worker 2009
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : human rights and anthropology / Mark Goodale
  • Conceptual and historical foundations
  • Statement on human rights (1947) and commentaries / American Anthropological Association, Julian Steward, H. G. Barnett
  • The decline of the nation-state and the end of the rights of man / Hannah Arendt
  • The good, the bad, and the intolerable : minority group rights / Will Kymlicka
  • Toward a cross-cultural approach to defining international standards of human rights / Abudullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
  • Human rights and capabilities / Amartya Sen
  • Anthropology and human rights activism
  • Declaration on anthropology and human rights (1999) / Committe for Human Rights, American Anthropological Association
  • Anthropology, human rights, and social transformation / Ellen Messer
  • Excavations of the heart : healing fragmented communities / Victoria Sanford
  • Rethinking health and human rights : time for a paradigm shift / Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau
  • Rotten trade : millennial capitalism, human values and global justice in organs trafficking / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
  • Do anthropologists have an ethical obligation to promote human rights? : an open exchange / Terence Turner, Laura R. Graham, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Jane K. Cowan
  • The ethnography of human rights practices
  • Representing human rights violations : social contexts and subjectivities / Richard. A. Wilson
  • Gendered intersections : collective and individual rights in indigenous women's experience / Shannon Speed
  • Human rights and moral panics : listening to popular grievances / Harri Englund
  • Legal transplants and cultural translation : making human rights in the vernacular / Sally Engle Merry
  • Critical anthropologies of human rights
  • Culture and rights after Culture and rights / Jane K. Cowan
  • Human rights as cultural practice : an anthropological critique / Ann-Belinda S. Preis
  • Between universalism and relativism : a critique of the UNESCO concept of culture / Thomas Hylland Eriksen
  • Toward a critical anthropology of human rights / Mark Goodale
  • Appendix : websites on human rights
  • Index.

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