Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader

This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstratethe important and unique contributions anthropologists have made tothe understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60years.

• Draws on a range of intellectual and methodological approachesto reveal both the ambiguities and potential of the postwar humanrights project
• Brings together essays by both contemporary luminaries andseminal figures to provide a rich introduction to the subject
• Supplemented with selected international human rights documentsand links to websites on human rights

• Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology)
• Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (The University Center for Human Values Series)
• Human Rights: Politics and Practice
• Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)
• The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (California Series in Public Anthropology)
• Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
• Islam and the Rule of Justice: Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture
• Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore
• Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
• Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (Chicago Series in Law and Society)