Surrendering to utopia : an anthropology of human rights /
Mark Goodale.
- xii, 180 pages ; 23 cm.
- Stanford studies in human rights .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
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Human rights--Anthropological aspects. Political anthropology.