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Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader
Mark Goodale
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Description for Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader
Hardback. Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader is a groundbreaking collection that brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions that anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 828.
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.
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
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Series
Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405183352
SKU
V9781405183352
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99-50
About Mark Goodale
Mark Goodale is Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Anthropology at George Mason University and the Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights. He is the author of Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford UP, 2009) and Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford UP, 2008) and coeditor (with Sally Engle Merry) of ... Read more
Reviews for Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader
"Provides an important introduction to core epistemological, moral, and methodological questions at stake. ... Recommended reading not just as background literature for students of the field, but for the wider anthropological community seeking to come to terms with rights." (Social Anthropology, January 2010) "Goodale has an apt sense of what is important and what has ... Read more