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 …

Morality: An Anthropological Perspective provides the first account of anthropological
approaches to the question of morality. By considering how morality is viewed and enacted …

The term indigenous, long used to distinguish between those who are “native” and their
“others” in specific locales, has also become a term for a geocultural category, presupposing …

Since the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms
with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements …

This book explores how museums, galleries and heritage sites of all kinds, through the
narratives they construct and publicly present, can shape the moral and political climate …

¿ Qué es la etnografía?¿ Cuáles son sus bases históricas?¿ Quiénes han sido sus
principales impulsores?¿ Cuáles son los límites y el potencial de esta forma de construcción …

The exhumations of two mass graves in a small Spanish village, conducted eight years
apart, illustrate changing attitudes toward and procedures related to Civil War (1936–39) …

The growth of the human rights regime in the Palestinian occupied territories during the last
two decades and the spread of visual media have had an extreme effect on the nature of …

This study outlines the emerging cultural turn in Peace Studies and provides a critical
understanding of the cultural dimension of reconciliation. Taking an anthropological view on …

This article analyses the creation of new human rights by a contemporary transnational
agrarian movement, Vía Campesina. It makes the case that the movement's assertion of new …