Human Rights : An Anthropological Reader

by Goodale, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781405183345
• ISBN10: 1405183349
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-20
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years. Draws on a range of intellectual and methodological approaches to reveal both the ambiguities and potential of the postwar human rights project Brings together essays by both contemporary luminaries and seminal figures to provide a rich introduction to the subject Supplemented with selected international human rights documents and links to websites on human rights

Author Biography

Mark Goodale is Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Anthropology at George Mason University and the Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights. He is the author of Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford UP, 2009) and Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford UP, 2008) and coeditor (with Sally Engle Merry) of The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local (Cambridge UP, 2007).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Human Rights and Anthropology	p. 1
Conceptual and Historical Foundations	p. 21
Statement on Human Rights (1947) and Commentaries	p. 23
The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man	p. 32
The Good, the Bad, and the Intolerable: Minority Group Rights	p. 58
Toward a Cross-Cultural Approach to Defining International Standards of Human Rights: The Meaning of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment	p. 68
Human Rights and Capabilities	p. 86
Anthropology and Human Rights Activism	p. 99
Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights (1999)	p. 101
Anthropology, Human Rights, and Social Transformation	p. 103
Excavations of the Heart: Healing Fragmented Communities	p. 135
Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Time for a Paradigm Shift	p. 148
Rotten Trade: Millennial Capitalism, Human Values and Global Justice in Organs Trafficking	p. 167
Anthropology and Human Rights: Do Anthropologists Have an Ethical Obligation to Promote Human Rights? An Open Exchange	p. 198
The Ethnography of Human Rights Practices	p. 207
Representing Human Rights Violations: Social Contexts and Subjectivities	p. 209
Gendered Intersections: Collective and Individual Rights in Indigenous Women's Experience	p. 229
Human Rights and Moral Panics: Listening to Popular Grievances	p. 246
Legal Transplants and Cultural Translation: Making Human Rights in the Vernacular	p. 265
Critical Anthropologies of Human Rights	p. 303
Culture and Rights after Culture and Rights	p. 305
Human Rights as Cultural Practice: An Anthropological Critique	p. 332
Between Universalism and Relativism: A Critique of the UNESCO Concept of Culture	p. 356
Toward a Critical Anthropology of Human Rights	p. 372
Websites on Human Rights	p. 395
Index	p. 399
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