Human Rights, Culture and Context: Anthropological Perspectives

by Richard Ashby Wilson

Drawing on case studies from around the world - including Iran, Guatemala, USA and Mexico - this collection documents how transnational human rights discourses and legal institutions are materialised, imposed, resisted and transformed in a variety of contexts.

Genres: Nonfiction, Anthropology

240 pages, Paperback

First published November 20, 1996

Reviews

[Reed]

There's one essay in this book by Richard Wilson called "Representing Human Rights Violations" that I found extremely thoughtful about the limitations of language when it comes to constructing a human rights violation in a univerally understandable way.