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Human rights in global perspective : anthropological studies of rights, claims and entitlements /
In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights. But do we ever consider how these work in local contexts and across diverse cultural and ethical structures? Do human rights agendas address the problems many people face, or are they more often the imposition of Western...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Colección: | A.S.A. monographs ;
40. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Representing the common good: the limits of legal language / Kirsten Hastrup
- Two approaches to rights and religion in contemporary France / John R. Bowen
- This turbulent priest: contesting religious rights and the state in the Tibetan Shugden controversy / Martin A. Mills
- Legal/illegal counterpoints: subjecthood and subjectivity in an unrecognized state / Yael Navaro-Yashin
- Anthropologists as expert witnesses: political asylum cases involving Sri Lankan Tamils / Anthony Good
- Voices from the margins: knowledge and interpellation in Israeli human rights protests / Richard W.J. Clarke
- The uncertain political limits of cultural claims: minority rights politics in south-east Europe / Jane K. Cowan
- 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
- Reproduction, health, rights: connections and disconnections / Maya Unnithan-Kumar
- Rights and the poor / John Gledhill
- The rights of being human / Lisette Josephides.