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9780203506271

Human Rights in Global Perspective: Anthropological Studies of Rights, Claims and Entitlements

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203506271

  • ISBN10:

    0203506278

  • Copyright: 2004-06-04
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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The aim of this volume is to understand, from an anthropological perspective, the consequences of the rise of rights discussions and institutions in both local and global politics.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Social Life of Rights
Representing the Common Good: The Limits of Legal Language
Two Approaches to Rights and Religion in Contemporary France
This Turbulent Priest: Contesting Religious Rights and the State in Tibetan Shugden Controversy
Legal/Illegal Counterpoints: Subjecthood and Subjectivity in a Pirate State
Anthropologists as Expert Witness: Political Asylum Cases Involving Sri Lankan Tamils
Voices from the Margins: Knowledge and Interpellation in Israeli Human Rights Protests
The Uncertain Political Limits of Cultural Claims: Ambiguous Symbols and Multiple Audiences in Contemporary Minority Rights Politics in Southeast Europe
'Using Rights to Measure Wrongs': A Case Study of Method and Moral in the Work of South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Reproduction, Health, Rights: Connections and Disconnections
Rights and the Poor
The Rights of Being Human
Index
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