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