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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Stanford studies in human rights.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=395785 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.