Surrendering to Utopia - An Anthropology of Human Rights

Informationen zum Autor Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne. He is the author of Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford, 2008), editor of Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader (2009), and coeditor of The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local (2007). Klappentext A broad and ambitious reexamination of anthropology's potential and obligation to transform human rights theory and practice. Zusammenfassung A broad and ambitious reexamination of anthropology's potential and obligation to transform human rights theory and practice.

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• Authors: Mark Goodale
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2009
• EAN: 9780804762137
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6213-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Stanford Studies in Human Righ; Stanford Studies in Human Righ; Stanford Studies in Human Rights
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology