Human Rights

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An Anthropological Reader

By Mark Goodale

Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology

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Human Rights is an innovative reader showcasing the vital contributions anthropologists have made to understanding and practising human rights over the last 60 years. It presents essays from both contemporary thinkers and seminal figures, combined with key international human rights documents and helpful web links. The collection explores the complexities and possibilities inherent in the postwar human rights project through diverse intellectual and methodological perspectives.
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Ideal for students and scholars of anthropology, human rights, and related social sciences, as well as professionals interested in the intersections of culture and legal frameworks.

Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader is a groundbreaking collection that brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions that anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years.

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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.

Human Rights draws on a range of intellectual and methodological approaches to reveal both the ambiguities and potential of the postwar human rights project.

The book brings together essays by both contemporary luminaries and seminal figures to provide a rich introduction to the subject.

It is supplemented with selected international human rights documents and links to websites on human rights.

Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology

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Human Rights

By Mark Goodale

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Critics have praised the book for providing an essential introduction to core epistemological, moral, and methodological issues. It is recommended not only for students of anthropology and human rights, but also for the broader anthropological community. Reviewers note the book's insightful engagement with questions of cultural relativism, the concept of culture, and the future of anthropology itself, highlighting its valuable contribution to ongoing debates.

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ISBN: 9781405183345

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 September 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 173.0mm

Height: 247.0mm

Weight: 637g

Pages: 416

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Education & Reference Mark Goodale Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology

About the Author

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).

Human Rights