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Human rights in the Maya region : global politics, cultural contentions, and moral engagements /

Investigation of human rights and anthropology's involvement with human rights in Mesoamerica, a region which has become one of a handful of testing grounds for this theme in the world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pitarch Ramón, Pedro, Speed, Shannon, 1964-, Leyva Solano, Xochitl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Cultural rights and human rights: a social science perspective / Rodolfo Stavenhagen
  • 2. Perspectives on the politics of human rights in Guatemala / Robert M. Carmack
  • 3. Legal globalization and human rights: constructing the rule of law in postconflict Guatemala? / Rachel Sieder
  • 4. The Labyrinth of Translation: A Tzeltal Version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Pedro Pitarch
  • 5. Are Human Rights Destroying the Natural Balance of All Things? The Diffcult Encounter between International Law and Community Law in Mayan Guatemala / Stener Ekern
  • Here it's different: the Ch'orti and human rights training / Julián López García
  • 7. Indigenous Law and Gender Dialogues / Irma Otzoy
  • 8. Human Rights, Land Conflicts, and Memory of the Violence in the Ixil Country of Northern Quiché / David Stoll
  • 9. Global Discourses on the Local Terrain: Human Rights in Chiapas / Shannon Speed and Xochitl Leyva Solano
  • 10. Breaking the Reign of Silence: Ethnography of a Clandestine Cemetery / Victoria Sanford
  • 11. Rights of the Poor: Progressive Catholicism and Indigenous Resistance in Chiapas / Christine Kovic
  • 12. Asumiendo nuestra propia defensa: Resistance and the Red de Defensores Comunitarios in Chiapas / Shannon Speed and Alvaro Reyes
  • Final Comments, Making Rights Meaningful for Mayas: Reflections on Culture, Rights, and Power / Richard Ashby Wilson.