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Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives : A Quest for Consensus.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1992Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (489 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812200195
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human Rights in Cross-Cultural PerspectivesLOC classification:
  • K3240.6 -- .H8767 1992eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I. General Issues of a Cross-Cultural Approach to Human Rights -- 1. Toward a Cross-Cultural Approach to Defining International Standards of Human Rights: The Meaning of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment -- 2. Cultural Foundations for the International Protection of Human Rights -- 3. Making a Goddess of Democracy from Loose Sand: Thoughts on Human Rights in the People's Republic of China -- 4. Dignity, Community, and Human Rights -- Section II. Problems and Prospects of Alternative Cultural Interpretation -- 5. Postliberal Strands in Western Human Rights Theory: Personalist-Communitarian Perspectives -- 6. Should Communities Have Rights? Reflections on Liberal Individualism -- 7. A Marxian Approach to Human Rights -- Section III. Regional and Indigenous Cultural Perspectives on Human Rights -- 8. North American Indian Perspectives on Human Rights -- 9. Aboriginal Communities, Aboriginal Rights, and the Human Rights System in Canada -- 10. Political Culture and Gross Human Rights Violations in Latin America -- 11. Custom Is Not a Thing, It Is a Path: Reflections on the Brazilian Indian Case -- 12. Cultural Legitimacy in the Formulation and Implementation of Human Rights Law and Policy in Australia -- 13. Considering Gender: Are Human Rights for Women, Too? An Australian Case -- 14. Right to Self-Determination: A Basic Human Right Concerning Cultural Survival. The Case of the Sami and the Scandinavian State -- Section IV. Prospects for a Cross-Cultural Approach to Human Rights -- 15. Prospects for Research on the Cultural Legitimacy of Human Rights: The Cases of Liberalism and Marxism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: "All the contributions are interesting and, from their own different perspectives, throw light on the different aspects of the vexed question of human rights."--Political Studies.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I. General Issues of a Cross-Cultural Approach to Human Rights -- 1. Toward a Cross-Cultural Approach to Defining International Standards of Human Rights: The Meaning of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment -- 2. Cultural Foundations for the International Protection of Human Rights -- 3. Making a Goddess of Democracy from Loose Sand: Thoughts on Human Rights in the People's Republic of China -- 4. Dignity, Community, and Human Rights -- Section II. Problems and Prospects of Alternative Cultural Interpretation -- 5. Postliberal Strands in Western Human Rights Theory: Personalist-Communitarian Perspectives -- 6. Should Communities Have Rights? Reflections on Liberal Individualism -- 7. A Marxian Approach to Human Rights -- Section III. Regional and Indigenous Cultural Perspectives on Human Rights -- 8. North American Indian Perspectives on Human Rights -- 9. Aboriginal Communities, Aboriginal Rights, and the Human Rights System in Canada -- 10. Political Culture and Gross Human Rights Violations in Latin America -- 11. Custom Is Not a Thing, It Is a Path: Reflections on the Brazilian Indian Case -- 12. Cultural Legitimacy in the Formulation and Implementation of Human Rights Law and Policy in Australia -- 13. Considering Gender: Are Human Rights for Women, Too? An Australian Case -- 14. Right to Self-Determination: A Basic Human Right Concerning Cultural Survival. The Case of the Sami and the Scandinavian State -- Section IV. Prospects for a Cross-Cultural Approach to Human Rights -- 15. Prospects for Research on the Cultural Legitimacy of Human Rights: The Cases of Liberalism and Marxism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

"All the contributions are interesting and, from their own different perspectives, throw light on the different aspects of the vexed question of human rights."--Political Studies.

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