LEADER 03716nam 22006375 450 001 9910806897203321 005 20240426180640.0 010 $a1-283-21067-3 010 $a9786613210678 010 $a0-8122-0019-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200195 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050980 035 $a(OCoLC)636605669 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491957 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000175073 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11197073 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000175073 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10208958 035 $a(PQKB)11664342 035 $a(DE-B1597)448880 035 $a(OCoLC)979723898 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200195 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441500 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050980 100 $a20200723h20101992 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aHuman Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives $eA Quest for Consensus /$fAbdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2010] 210 4$dİ1992 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 479 pages) 225 1 $aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1568-0 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Toward a Cross-Cultural Approach to Defining International Standards of Human Rights --$t2. Cultural Foundations for the International Protection of Human Rights --$t3. Making A Goddess of Democracy from Loose Sand --$t4. Dignity, Community, and Human Rights --$t5. Postliberal Strands in Western Human Rights Theory --$t6. Should Communities Have Rights? Reflections on Liberal Individualism --$t7. A Marxian Approach to Human Rights --$t8. North American Indian Perspectives on Human Rights --$t9. Aboriginal Communities, Aboriginal Rights, and the Human Rights System in Canada --$t10. Political Culture and Gross Human Rights Violations in Latin America --$t11. Custom Is Not a Thing, It Is a Path --$t12. Cultural Legitimacy in the Formulation and Implementation of Human Rights Law and Policy in Australia --$t13. Considering Gender Arc Human Rights for Women, Too? An Australian Case --$t14. Right to Self-Determination: A Basic Human Right Concerning Cultural Survival. The Case of the Sami and the Scandinavian State --$t15. Prospects for Research on the Cultural Legitimacy of Human Rights --$tConclusion --$tBibliography --$tContributors --$tIndex 330 $aHuman rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror and sadness. Yet, as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and his contributors attest, our viewpoint is clouded and biased by the expectations native to our own culture. How do other cultures view human rights issues? Can an analysis of these issues through multiple viewpoints, both cross-cultural and indigenous, help us reinterpret and reconstruct prevailing theories of human rights? 410 0$aPennsylvania studies in human rights. 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE$2bisac 606 $aHuman rights 606 $aLaw, Politics & Government$2HILCC 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE 615 0$aHuman rights. 615 7$aLaw, Politics & Government 676 $a323 686 $aPR 2213$2rvk 702 $aAn-Na'im$b Abdullahi Ahmed$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806897203321 996 $aHuman rights in cross-cultural perspectives$9241365 997 $aUNINA