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Surrendering to Utopia : an anthropology of human rights /

By: Goodale, Mark.
Series: Stanford studies in human rights: Publisher: Stanford, Ca. : Stanford University Press, 2009Description: xii, 180 pages ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780804762120; 9780804762120:; 0804762120; 9780804762137; 0804762139.Subject(s): Human rights -- Anthropological aspects | Political anthropologyDDC classification: 323 GOO
Contents:
Introduction : a well-tempered human rights -- Becoming irrelevant : the curious history of anthropology and human rights -- Encountering relativism : the philosophy, politics, and power of a dilemma -- Culture on the half shell : universal rights through the back door -- Human rights along the grapevine : the ethnography of transnational norms -- Rights unbound : anthropology and the emergence of neoliberal human rights -- Conclusion : human rights in an anthropological key.
Summary: This study describes an orientation to human rights in the 21st century that is shaped by a sense of humility, an appreciation for the disorienting fact of multiplicity, and a willingness to make that mundaneness of social practice a source of ethical inspiration.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index.

Introduction : a well-tempered human rights -- Becoming irrelevant : the curious history of anthropology and human rights -- Encountering relativism : the philosophy, politics, and power of a dilemma -- Culture on the half shell : universal rights through the back door -- Human rights along the grapevine : the ethnography of transnational norms -- Rights unbound : anthropology and the emergence of neoliberal human rights -- Conclusion : human rights in an anthropological key.

This study describes an orientation to human rights in the 21st century that is shaped by a sense of humility, an appreciation for the disorienting fact of multiplicity, and a willingness to make that mundaneness of social practice a source of ethical inspiration.

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