Beyond rights talk and culture talk : comparative essays on the politics of rights and culture / [edited by] Mahmood Mamdani.
2000
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Title
Beyond rights talk and culture talk : comparative essays on the politics of rights and culture / [edited by] Mahmood Mamdani.
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Call Number
JC571 .B49 2000
ISBN
0312234988 (pbk.)
031223497X (cloth)
031223497X (cloth)
Description
v, 170 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)43567301
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-165) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of contributors
Introduction / Mahmood Mamdani
1
1
'Culture' and human rights: orientalising, occidentalising and authenticity / Martin Chanock
15
2
Contradictory perspectives on rights and justice in the context of land tenure reform in Tanzania / Issa G. Shivji
37
3
Were the critics right about rights? Reassessing the American debate about rights in the post-reform era / Kimberle Crenshaw
61
4
State, community and the debate on the uniform civil code in India / Nivedita Menon
75
5
Religious revivalism, human rights activism and the struggle for women's rights in Nigeria / Hussaina J. Abdullah
96
6
Tensions in legal and religious values in the 1996 South African Constitution / Ebrahim Moosa
121
7
The African customary law of marriage and the rights conundrum / Thandabantu Nhlapo
136
Notes
149
References
158
Index
166