Surrendering to utopia : an anthropology of human rights /

Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that have shaped human rights in the postwar period, this ambitious work opens up new opportunities for...

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Tác giả chính: Goodale, Mark
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
Loạt:Stanford studies in human rights.
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Mục lục:
  • Introduction : a well-tempered human rights
  • Becoming irrelevant : the curious history of anthropology and human rights
  • Encountering relativism : the philosophy, politics, and power of a dilemma
  • Culture on the half shell : universal rights through the back door
  • Human rights along the grapevine : the ethnography of transnational norms
  • Rights unbound : anthropology and the emergence of neoliberal human rights
  • Conclusion : human rights in an anthropological key.