Culture and rights : anthropological perspectives / edited by Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson.
2001
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Title
Culture and rights : anthropological perspectives / edited by Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson.
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Call Number
JC571 .C75 2001
ISBN
0521793394
0521797357 (pbk.)
0521797357 (pbk.)
Description
xiv, 258 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)44952025
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
List of contributors
Preface
1Introduction
1
Pt. I
Setting universal rights
27
2Changing rights, changing culture / Sally Engle Merry
31
3Following the movement of a pendulum: between universalism and relativism / Marie-Benedicte Dembour
56
4Imposing rights? A case study of child prostitution in Thailand / Heather Montgomery
80
5Gendering culture: towards a plural perspective on Kwena women's rights / Anne Griffiths
102
6Between universalism and relativism: a critique of the UNESCO concept of culture / Thomas Hylland Eriksen
127
Pt. II
Claiming cultural rights
149
7Ambiguities of an emancipatory discourse: the making of a Macedonian minority in Greece / Jane K. Cowan
152
8From group rights to individual rights and back: Nepalese struggles over culture and equality / David N. Gellner
177
9Advancing indigenous claims through the law: reflections on the Guatemalan peace process / Rachel Sieder Jessica Witchell
201
10Rights as the reward for simulated cultural sameness: the Innu in the Canadian colonial context / Colin Samson
226
Index
249