Human rights in cross-cultural perspectives : a quest for consensus / edited by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naʻim.
1992
323 H918
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Title
Human rights in cross-cultural perspectives : a quest for consensus / edited by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naʻim.
ISBN
081223104X (alk. paper)
Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1992.
Language
English
Description
vii, 479 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
323 H918
System Control No.
(OCoLC)24247076
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-461) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Toward a cross-cultural approach to defining international standards of human rights : the meaning of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment / Abdullahi A. An-Naim
Cultural foundations for the international protection of human rights / Richard Falk
Making a goddess of democracy from loose sand : thoughts on human rights in the People's Republic of China / William P. Alford
Dignity, community, and human rights / Rhoda E. Howard
Postliberal strands in Western human rights theory : personalist-communitarian perspectives/ Virginia A. Leary
Should communities have rights? : reflections on liberal individualism / Michael McDonald
A Marxian approach to human rights / Richard Nordahl.
North American Indian perspectives on human rights / James W. Zion
Aboriginal communities, aboriginal rights, and the human rights system in Canada / Allan McChesney
Political culture and gross human rights violations in Latin America / Hugo Fruhling
Custom is not a thing, it is a path : reflections on the Brazilian Indian case / Manuela Carneiro da Cunha
Cultural legitimacy in the formulation and implementation of human rights law and policy in Australia / Patricia Hyndman
Considering gender : are human rights for women, too? : an Australian case / Diane Bell
Right to self-determination : a basic human right concerning cultural survival, the case of the Sami and the Scandinavian state / Tom G. Svensson.
Prospects for research on the cultural legitimacy of human rights : the cases of liberalism and Marxism / Tore Lindholm
Conclusion / Abdullah A. An-Naim.
Cultural foundations for the international protection of human rights / Richard Falk
Making a goddess of democracy from loose sand : thoughts on human rights in the People's Republic of China / William P. Alford
Dignity, community, and human rights / Rhoda E. Howard
Postliberal strands in Western human rights theory : personalist-communitarian perspectives/ Virginia A. Leary
Should communities have rights? : reflections on liberal individualism / Michael McDonald
A Marxian approach to human rights / Richard Nordahl.
North American Indian perspectives on human rights / James W. Zion
Aboriginal communities, aboriginal rights, and the human rights system in Canada / Allan McChesney
Political culture and gross human rights violations in Latin America / Hugo Fruhling
Custom is not a thing, it is a path : reflections on the Brazilian Indian case / Manuela Carneiro da Cunha
Cultural legitimacy in the formulation and implementation of human rights law and policy in Australia / Patricia Hyndman
Considering gender : are human rights for women, too? : an Australian case / Diane Bell
Right to self-determination : a basic human right concerning cultural survival, the case of the Sami and the Scandinavian state / Tom G. Svensson.
Prospects for research on the cultural legitimacy of human rights : the cases of liberalism and Marxism / Tore Lindholm
Conclusion / Abdullah A. An-Naim.
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Series
Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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