K. Cowan / Marie-Bénédicte Dembour / A. Wilson (eds.)

Culture and Rights

Anthropological Perspectives
Herausgeber: Cowan, Jane K.; Wilson, Richard; Dembour, Marie-Benedicte

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Produktbeschreibung

Do people everywhere have the same, or even compatible, ideas about multiculturalism, indigenous rights or women's rights? The authors of this book move beyond the traditional terms of the universalism versus cultural relativism debate. Through detailed case studies from around the world (Hawaii, France, Thailand, Botswana, Greece, Nepal and Canada) they explore the concrete effects of rights talk and rights institutions on people's lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780521797351
• ISBN-10: 0521797357
• Artikelnr.: 22331090

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; Part I. Setting Universal Rights: 2. Changing rights,
changing culture Sally Engle Merry; 3. Following the movement of a
pendulum: between universalism and relativism Marie-Bénédicte Dembour; 4.
Imposing rights? - a case study of child prostitution in Thailand Heather
Montgomery; 5. Gendering culture: towards a plural perspective of Kwena
women's rights Anne Griffiths; 6. Between universalism and relativism: a
critique of the UNESCO concept of culture Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Part II.
Claiming Cultural Rights: 7. Ambiguities of an emancipatory discourse: The
making of a Macedonian minority in Greece Jane K. Cowan; 8. From cultural
rights to individual rights and back: Nepalese struggles over culture and
identity David Gellner; 9. Advancing indigenous claims through the law:
Reflections on the Guatemalan peace process Rachel Sieder and Jessica
Witchell; 10. Rights as the reward for simulated cultural sameness: the
Innu in the Canadian colonial context Colin Samson.