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

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Superior document:A.S.A. monographs ; 40
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:A.S.A. monographs ; 40.
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Physical Description:viii, 259 p.
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Table of 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.