Human rights in global perspective
Subtitle: anthropological studies of rights, claims and entitlements
By: edited by Richard Ashby Wilson and Jon P. Mitchell
Contributors: Taylor & Francis
Series: ASA monographs -- 40; A.S.A. monographs -- 40.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [ressource e lectronique] :
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780203506271
Subjects: Human rights; Droits de l'homme; Politique; Aspect social; Anthropologie; Aspect moral
Notes: Comprend des re f. bibliogr. et un index.

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Table of contents: title: Representing the common good: the limits of legal language / Kirsten Hastrup; title: Two approaches to rights and religion in contemporary France / John R. Bowen; title: This turbulent priest: contesting religious rights and the state in the Tibetan Shugden controversy / Martin A. Mills; title: Legal/illegal counterpoints: subjecthood and subjectivity in an unrecognized state / Yael Navaro-Yashin; title: Anthropologists as expert witnesses: political asylum cases involving Sri Lankan Tamils / Anthony Good; title: Voices from the margins: knowledge and interpellation in Israeli human rights protests / Richard W.J. Clarke; title: The uncertain political limits of cultural claims: minority rights politics in south-east Europe / Jane K. Cowan; title: Using rights to measure wrongs: a case study of method and moral in the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Fiona C. Ross; title: Reproduction, health, rights: connections and disconnections / Maya Unnithan-Kumar; title: Rights and the poor / John Gledhill; title: The rights of being human / Lisette Josephides.