Culture and rights
Subtitle: anthropological perspectives
By: edited by Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, and Richard A. Wilson
Contributors: Cowan, Jane K., 1954-; Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte, 1961-; Wilson, Richard, 1964-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Human rights -- Cross-cultural studies; Cultural relativism
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Changing rights, changing culture / Sally Engle Merry; title: Following the movement of a pendulum : between universalism and relativism / Marie-Benedicte Dembour; title: Imposing rights? A case study of child prostitution in Thailand / Heather Montgomery; title: Gendering culture : towards a plural perspective on Kwena women's rights / Anne Griffiths; title: Between universalism and relativism : a critique of the UNESCO concept of culture / Thomas Hylland Eriksen; title: Ambiguities of an emancipatory disoucse : the making of a Macedonian minoritiy in Greece / Jane K. Cowan; title: From group rights to individual rights and back : Napalese struggles over culture and equality / David N. Gellner; title: Advancing indigenous claims through the law : reflections on the Guatemalan peace process / Rachel Sieder and Jessica Witchell; title: Rights as the reward for simulated cultural sameness : the Innu in the Canandian colonial context / Colin Samson