Human Rights
An Anthropological Reader
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:26th Sep '08
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- Hardback£88.95(9781405183352)
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
"Provides an important introduction to core epistemological, moral, and methodological questions at stake. ... Recommended reading not just as background literature for students of the field, but for the wider anthropological community seeking to come to terms with rights." (Social Anthropology, January 2010)
"Goodale has an apt sense of what is important and what has yet to be done in the anthropological encounter with human rights ... .The book raises valuable questions not only about human rights but ultimately about cultural relativism, the concept of culture, and the practice and future of anthropology itself." (Academici, April 2009)
"The book draws on a range of intellectual and methodological approaches to explore both the ambiguities and potential of the postwar human rights project." (Law & Social Inquiry, Spring 2009)
ISBN: 9781405183345
Dimensions: 247mm x 173mm x 20mm
Weight: 637g
416 pages