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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A.S.A. monographs ; 40.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: viii, 259 pISBN:
  • 9780203506271
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 323 21
LOC classification:
  • JC571 .H769523 2003
Other classification:
  • 86.81
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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