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Informationen zum Autor Pedro Pitarch, Shannon Speed, and Xochitl Leyva Solano, eds. Klappentext Investigation of human rights and anthropology's involvement with human rights in Mesoamerica, a region which has become one of a handful of testing grounds for this theme in the world. Zusammenfassung Includes a reflection on the effects of truth-finding and documenting particular human rights abuses! a look at how Catholic social teaching validates the human rights claims advanced by indigenous members of a diocese in Chiapas! and several analyses of the limitations of human rights frameworks. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations vii Introduction / Shannon Speed and Xochitl Leyva Solano 1 Part 1: Global Politics and Nation-States 1. Cultural Rights and Human Rights: A Social Science Perspective / Rodolfo Stavenhagen 27 2. Perspectives on the Politics of Human Rights in Guatemala / Robert M. Carmack 51 3. Legal Globalization and Human Rights: Constructing the Rule of Law in Postconflict Guatemala? / Rachel Sieder 67 Part 2: Cultural Contentions 4. The Labyrinth of Translation: A Tzeltal Version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Pedro Pitarch 91 5. Are Human Rights Destroying the Natural Balance of All Things? The Difficult Encounter between International Law and Community Law in Mayan Guatemala / Stener Ekern 123 6. "Here It's Different": The Ch'orti' and Human Rights Training / Julián López García 145 7. Indigenous Law and Gender Dialogues / Irma Otzoy 171 8. Human Rights, Land Conflicts, and Memory of the Violence in the Ixil Country of Northern Quiché / David Stoll 187 Part 3: Political Engagements 9. Global Discourses on the Local Terrain: Human Rights in Chiapas / Shannon Speed and Xochitl Leyva Solano 207 10. Breaking the Reign of Silence: Ethnography of a Clandestine Cemetery / Victoria Sanford 233 11. Rights of the Poor: Progressive Catholicism and Indigenous Resistance in Chiapas / Christine Kovic 257 12. "Asumiendo Nuestra Propia Defensa": Resistance and the Red de Defensores Comunitarios in Chiapas / Shannon Speed and Alvaro Reyes 279 Final Comments Making Rights Meaningful for Mayas: Reflections on Culture, Rights, and Power / Richard Ashby Wilson 305 References 323 Contributors 357 Index 361...
