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The Promise And Peril Of Public Anthropology, Ben Feinberg
The Promise And Peril Of Public Anthropology, Ben Feinberg
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
Why America’s Top Pundits Are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson. University of California Press: Berkeley, 2005. 282 pp.
and
Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power edited by Roberto J. González. University of Texas Press: Austin, 2004. 288 pp.
and
Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists by David H. Price. Duke University Press: Durham, 2004. 426 pp.
Escaping The Cultural Context Of Human Rights, Andrew Fagan
Escaping The Cultural Context Of Human Rights, Andrew Fagan
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom by Chandran Kukathas. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003. pp.292
Darkness In Anthropology, Peter Van Arsdale
Darkness In Anthropology, Peter Van Arsdale
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An essay covering Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000. 417 pp. and related documents.
Universal Human Rights And Cultural Diversity, Hilde Hey
Universal Human Rights And Cultural Diversity, Hilde Hey
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of Human Rights: New Perspectives, New Realities, edited by Adamantia Pollis and Peter Schwab. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000. 259pp.
The debate as to whether human rights should be considered universal or culturally relative has come a long way. In 1947, when the Commission on Human Rights considered proposals for formulating a declaration on basic human rights, the American Anthropological Association submitted a statement expressing concern about the universality of the proposed declaration. The association’s main argument was that ideas about rights and wrongs and good and evil that exist in one society are incompatible with the ideas …