Human Rights, Culture and Context: Anthropological Perspectives

Name: Human Rights, Culture and Context: Anthropological Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780745311425

ISBN-10: 0745311423

ISBN-13: 9780745311425

Edition: 1996

Authors: Richard A. Wilson

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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 5/20/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.46" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.594
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).



Acknowledgements


Contributors



Human Rights, Culture and Context: An Introduction




Legal Pluralism and Transnational Culture: The Ka Ho'okolokolonui Kanaka Maoli Tribunal, Hawai'i, 1993




Multiculturalism, Individualism and Human Rights: Romanticism, the Enlightenment and Lessons from Mauritius




Liberalism, Socio-economic Rights and the Politics of Identity: From Moral Economy to Indigenous Rights




On Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment




Representing Human Rights Violations: Social Contexts and Subjectivities




Universal and Sustainable Human Rights? Special Tribunals in Guatemala




To Whom Should We Listen? Human Rights Activism in Two Guatemalan Land Disputes



Index