Although a thriving social science literature in citizenship has emerged in the past two
decades, to date there exists neither a sociology of rights nor a sociology of human rights …

Evidence excavacated from mass graves and clandestine burials has played an important
role in the international prosecution of human rights abuses as well as in individual criminal …

This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern
anthropology. Avoiding geographical bias, the authors provide summaries of …

Human Rights, now in its fourth edition, is an introductory text that is both innovative and
challenging. Its unique interdisciplinary approach invites students to think imaginatively and …

Ours has been called a global" age of rights," an era in which respect for human rights is
considered the highest aspiration of the international democratic community. Since the …

Although asylum has generated unparalleled levels of public and political concern over the
past decade, there has been astonishingly little field research on the topic. This is a study of …

From legal responsibility for genocide to rectifying past injuries to indigenous people, the
anthropology of law addresses some of the crucial ethical issues of our day. Over the past …

This book draws on key theories and methods from the social sciences to develop a
framework for the systematic study of human rights problems. It argues that solid empirical …

Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to
human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual …

Some 17 years after the end of the cold war, the international and transnational human
rights regimes that emerged in the wake of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights …