Surrendering to utopia : an anthropology of human rights - Goodale, Mark. (Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009)
Introduction : a well-tempered human rights -- Becoming irrelevant : the curious history of anthropology and human rights -- Encountering relativism : the philosophy, politics, and power of a dilemma -- Culture on the half shell : universal rights through the back door -- Human rights along the grapevine : the ethnography of transnational norms -- Rights unbound : anthropology and the emergence of neoliberal human rights -- Conclusion : human rights in an anthropological key.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-170) and index.
Keywords: Human rights -- Anthropological aspects; Political anthropology