Letters to the Contrary - A Curated History of the Unesco Human Rights Survey

Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne and Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights. The author or editor of 12 other volumes, his most recent book is Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction (2017).

List of contents

History: UNESCO in the Paradigmatic Transition

Interpretations: From a "Hollow Sham" to a "Plurality of Cultural Values"

Memorandum and Questionnaire Circulated by UNESCO on the Theoretical Bases of the Rights of Man

The Grounds of an International Declaration of Human Rights

Foreword and Introduction to Human Rights, Comments and Interpretations, UNESCO 1949

Liberalism from the Ashes

Beyond Egotistic Man: Communist, Socialist, and Social Democratic Challenges

Rights in a Sacred Universe

The Universal Declaration of Human Duties

The Technological Society of the Future

Universal Human Rights in a Colonial World

Human Rights as History and Practice

Specific Freedoms

From Repudiation to the Play of Fancy

About the author

Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne and Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights. The author or editor of 12 other volumes, his most recent book is Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction (2017).

Product details

• Authors: Mark Goodale, Mark/ Moyn Goodale
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780804799003
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-9900-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights; Stanford Studies in Human Righ; Stanford Studies in Human Righ; Stanford Studies in Human Rights
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education