Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader (Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology)

Goodale, Mark

ISBN 10: 1405183349 / ISBN 13: 9781405183345

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader (Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology)
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405183349
• ISBN 13: 9781405183345
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years.

• Draws on a range of intellectual and methodological approaches to reveal both the ambiguities and potential of the postwar human rights project
• Brings together essays by both contemporary luminaries and seminal figures to provide a rich introduction to the subject
• Supplemented with selected international human rights documents and links to websites on human rights

About the Author

Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne and Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction (NYU Press, 2017), Human Rights Encounters Legal Pluralism (ed. with Eva Brems and Giselle Corradi, Hart, Oņati International Series in Law and Society, 2016), Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America (ed. with Nancy Postero, Stanford, 2013), Human Rights at the Crossroads (ed., Oxford, 2012), Mirrors of Justice: Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era (ed. with Kamari Maxine Clarke, Cambridge, 2010), Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford, 2009), Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford, 2008), and The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local (ed. with Sally Engle Merry, Cambridge, 2007).