Human rights, culture and context: anthropological perspectives

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Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press (1997)
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Drawing on case studies from around the world - including Iran, Guatemala, USA and Mexico - this collection documents how transnational human rights discourses and legal institutions are materialised, imposed, resisted and transformed in a variety of contexts.

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JC571.H76943 1997

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Multiculturalism, individualism and human rights: Romanticism, the Enlightenment and lessons from Mauritius.Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Liberalism, socio-economic rights and the politics of identity: From moral economy to indigenous rights.John Gledhill
Universal and sustainable human rights? Special tribunals in Guatemala.Jennifer Schirmer
To whom should we listen? Human rights activism in two Guatemalan land disputes.David Stoll

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