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"Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader is a groundbreaking collection on the understanding and practice of human rights over the past 60 years. For decades, anthropologists have drawn on a range of intellectual and methodological approaches in order to reveal both the ambiguities and tremendous potential of the postwar human rights project. This volume synthesizes these different approaches and demonstrates how anthropologists have engaged with human rights as committed activists, empirical researchers, and cultural critics. By examining and drawing out the broader implications of this continuing legacy for the twenty-first century, this text serves as an essential resource for researchers, practitioners, and students of human rights."--BOOK JACKET.

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2009, Blackwell Pub. Ltd.
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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 Naim
Human rights and capabilities / Amartya Sen
Anthropology and human rights activism
Declaration on anthropology and human rights (1999) / 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? / Terence Turner, Laura Graham, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Jane 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 Cowan
Human rights as cultural practice: an anthropological critique / Ann-Belinda 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Malden, MA
Series
Blackwell readers in anthropology -- 10

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Dewey Decimal Class
323
Library of Congress
JC571 .H6915 2009, JC571.H6915 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
406

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OL23142618M
ISBN 13
9781405183345, 9781405183352
LCCN
2008002411
OCLC/WorldCat
191317935
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4231227

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