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Culture and rights : anthropological perspectives / edited by Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, and Richard A. Wilson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: xiv, 258 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521793394
  • 9780521793391
  • 0521797357
  • 9780521797351
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306 21
LOC classification:
  • JC571 .C75
Online resources:
Contents:
Changing rights, changing culture / Sally Engle Merry -- Following the movement of a pendulum : between universalism and relativism / Marie-Benedicte Dembour -- Imposing rights? A case study of child prostitution in Thailand / Heather Montgomery -- Gendering culture : towards a plural perspective on Kwena women's rights / Anne Griffiths -- Between universalism and relativism : a critique of the UNESCO concept of culture / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Ambiguities of an emancipatory disoucse : the making of a Macedonian minoritiy in Greece / Jane K. Cowan -- From group rights to individual rights and back : Napalese struggles over culture and equality / David N. Gellner -- Advancing indigenous claims through the law : reflections on the Guatemalan peace process / Rachel Sieder and Jessica Witchell -- Rights as the reward for simulated cultural sameness : the Innu in the Canandian colonial context / Colin Samson.
Summary: "Do people everywhere have the same, or even compatible, ideas about multiculturalism, indigenous rights or women's rights? The authors of this book move beyond the traditional terms of the universalism versus cultural relativism debate. Through detailed case-studies from around the world (Hawaii, France, Thailand, Botswana, Greece, Nepal and Canada) they explore the concrete effects of rights talk and rights institutions on people's lives." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam021/00045523.html.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Changing rights, changing culture / Sally Engle Merry -- Following the movement of a pendulum : between universalism and relativism / Marie-Benedicte Dembour -- Imposing rights? A case study of child prostitution in Thailand / Heather Montgomery -- Gendering culture : towards a plural perspective on Kwena women's rights / Anne Griffiths -- Between universalism and relativism : a critique of the UNESCO concept of culture / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Ambiguities of an emancipatory disoucse : the making of a Macedonian minoritiy in Greece / Jane K. Cowan -- From group rights to individual rights and back : Napalese struggles over culture and equality / David N. Gellner -- Advancing indigenous claims through the law : reflections on the Guatemalan peace process / Rachel Sieder and Jessica Witchell -- Rights as the reward for simulated cultural sameness : the Innu in the Canandian colonial context / Colin Samson.

"Do people everywhere have the same, or even compatible, ideas about multiculturalism, indigenous rights or women's rights? The authors of this book move beyond the traditional terms of the universalism versus cultural relativism debate. Through detailed case-studies from around the world (Hawaii, France, Thailand, Botswana, Greece, Nepal and Canada) they explore the concrete effects of rights talk and rights institutions on people's lives." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam021/00045523.html.

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