Surrendering to utopia
Subtitle: an anthropology of human rights
By: Mark Goodale.
Series: Stanford studies in human rights
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780804762120; 9780804762137
Subjects: Human rights -- Anthropological aspects; Political anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a well-tempered human rights; title: Becoming irrelevant : the curious history of anthropology and human rights; title: Encountering relativism : the philosophy, politics, and power of a dilemma; title: Culture on the half shell : universal rights through the back door; title: Human rights along the grapevine : the ethnography of transnational norms; title: Rights unbound : anthropology and the emergence of neoliberal human rights; title: Conclusion : human rights in an anthropological key.