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Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives » (1st Edition)

Authors: Marie-Benedicte Dembour (Editor), Richard Wilson (Editor), Jane K. Cowan
ISBN-13: 9780521797351, ISBN-10: 0521797357
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2001
Edition: 1st Edition

Case studies which consider the relationship between universal human rights and particular societies.

	List of contributors
	Preface
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Setting universal rights	27
2	Changing rights, changing culture	31
3	Following the movement of a pendulum: between universalism and relativism	56
4	Imposing rights? A case study of child prostitution in Thailand	80
5	Gendering culture: towards a plural perspective on Kwena women's rights	102
6	Between universalism and relativism: a critique of the UNESCO concept of culture	127
Pt. II	Claiming cultural rights	149
7	Ambiguities of an emancipatory discourse: the making of a Macedonian minority in Greece	152
8	From group rights to individual rights and back: Nepalese struggles over culture and equality	177
9	Advancing indigenous claims through the law: reflections on the Guatemalan peace process	201
10	Rights as the reward for simulated cultural sameness: the Innu in the Canadian colonial context	226
	Index	249