Human rights
Subtitle: an anthropological reader
By: edited by Mark Goodale.
Contributors: Goodale, Mark.
Series: Blackwell readers in anthropology -- 10
Publisher: Blackwell Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781405183345; 9781405183352
Subjects: Human rights; Anthropological ethics
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: human rights and anthropology / Mark Goodale; title: Conceptual and historical foundations; title: Statement on human rights (1947) and commentaries / American Anthropological Association, Julian Steward, H. G. Barnett; title: The decline of the nation-state and the end of the rights of man / Hannah Arendt; title: The good, the bad, and the intolerable: minority group rights / Will Kymlicka; title: Toward a cross-cultural approach to defining international standards of human rights / Abudullahi Ahmed An Naim; title: Human rights and capabilities / Amartya Sen; title: Anthropology and human rights activism; title: Declaration on anthropology and human rights (1999) / American Anthropological Association; title: Anthropology, human rights, and social transformation / Ellen Messer; title: Excavations of the heart: healing fragmented communities / Victoria Sanford; title: Rethinking health and human rights: time for a paradigm shift / Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau; title: Rotten trade: millennial capitalism, human values, and global justice in organs trafficking / Nancy Scheper-Hughes; title: Do anthropologists have an ethical obligation to promote human rights? / Terence Turner, Laura Graham, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Jane Cowan; title: The ethnography of human rights practices; title: Representing human rights violations: social contexts and subjectivities / Richard. A. Wilson; title: Gendered intersections: collective and individual rights in indigenous women's experience / Shannon Speed; title: Human rights and moral panics: listening to popular grievances / Harri Englund; title: Legal transplants and cultural translation: making human rights in the vernacular / Sally Engle Merry; title: Critical anthropologies of human rights; title: Culture and rights after culture and rights / Jane Cowan; title: Human rights as cultural practice: an anthropological critique / Ann-Belinda Preis; title: Between universalism and relativism: a critique of the UNESCO concept of culture / Thomas Hylland Eriksen; title: Toward a critical anthropology of human rights / Mark Goodale; title: Appendix: websites on human rights; title: Index.