Culture and Rights Anthropological Perspectives

Name: Culture and Rights Anthropological Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780521797351

ISBN-10: 0521797357

ISBN-13: 9780521797351

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Bï¿½nï¿½dicte Dembour, Richard A. Wilson

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Do people everywhere have the same, or even compatible, ideas about multiculturalism, indigenous rights or women's rights? Through detailed case studies, this work explores the concrete effects of rights talk and institutions on people's lives.

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/29/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Richard Wilson has carried out extensive research on the relationship between political violence, religion and ethnicity in Guatemala. He is the author of Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'egchi Experiences (1995, University of Oklahoma Press) At present he is making comparative studies of truth commissions in Latin America and South Africa.Together with Thomas Eriksen, he is the series editor of the Anthropology, Culture and Society series (Pluto Press).



Preface



Linkages



Robot Arms



Annulus



Reaching Angles



Above & Beyond



Straight-Line Linkages and the Pantograph



Straight-Line Linkages



Pantograph



Above & Beyond



Protein Folding and Pop-Up Cards



Fixed-Angle Chains



Protein Backbones



Maximum Span



Alignment



Piercing



Pop-Up Spinner



Above & Beyond



Origami



Flat Vertex Folds



Mountain and Valley Creases



Single-Vertex Flat Folds



The Maekawa-Justin Theorem



The Local Min Theorem



The Kawasaki-Justin Theorem



Above & Beyond



Fold and One-Cut



Examples



Fold and One-Cut Theorem



Above & Beyond



The Shopping Bag Theorem



Two Rigid Origami Examples



Dihedral Angle Constraints



The Shopping Bag Theorem



Above & Beyond



Polyhedra



Dï¿½rer's Problem: Edge Unfolding



Albrecht Dï¿½rer's Nets



Convex Polyhedra



The Open Problem



Spanning Cut Tree



Some Polyhedra with Nets



Above & Beyond



Unfolding Orthogonal Polyhedra



Orthogonal Polyhedra



Orthogonal Terrains



Grid Unfoldings



Above & Beyond



Folding Polygons to Convex Polyhedra



Questions



Alexandrov's Theorem



Folding Convex Polygons



The Foldings of the Latin Cross



Above & Beyond



Further Reading


Glossary


Answers to Exercises





























Acknowledgments


Index