Human rights in global perspective : anthropological studies of rights, claims and entitlements / edited by Richard Ashby Wilson and Jon P. Mitchell.

Other author Wilson, Richard, 1964-
Other author Mitchell, Jon P.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Descriptionviii, 259 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
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SeriesASA monographs ; 40
A.S.A. monographs 40. ^A5839
Contents Representing the common good: the limits of legal language / Kirsten Hastrup -- Two approaches to rights and religion in contemporary France / John R. Bowen -- This turbulent priest: contesting religious rights and the state in the Tibetan Shugden controversy / Martin A. Mills -- Legal/illegal counterpoints: subjecthood and subjectivity in an unrecognized state / Yael Navaro-Yashin -- Anthropologists as expert witnesses: political asylum cases involving Sri Lankan Tamils / Anthony Good -- Voices from the margins: knowledge and interpellation in Israeli human rights protests / Richard W.J. Clarke -- The uncertain political limits of cultural claims: minority rights politics in south-east Europe / Jane K. Cowan -- Using rights to measure wrongs: a case study of method and moral in the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Fiona C. Ross -- Reproduction, health, rights: connections and disconnections / Maya Unnithan-Kumar -- Rights and the poor / John Gledhill -- The rights of being human / Lisette Josephides.
Local noteLittle-348091--305131054460W
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002036976
ISBN0415304091
ISBN9780415304092
ISBN0415304105 (pbk.)
ISBN9780415304108 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks JC571 .H769523 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold