Human rights in the Maya region: global politics, cultural contentions, and moral engagements

1. Cultural rights and human rights: a social science perspective / Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- 2. Perspectives on the politics of human rights in Guatemala / Robert M. Carmack -- 3. Legal globalization and human rights: constructing the rule of law in postconflict Guatemala? / Rachel Sieder -- 4. The La...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Pitarch, Pedro (MitwirkendeR), Speed, Shannon 1964- (MitwirkendeR), Leyva Solano, Xochitl (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press c2008
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Zusammenfassung:1. Cultural rights and human rights: a social science perspective / Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- 2. Perspectives on the politics of human rights in Guatemala / Robert M. Carmack -- 3. Legal globalization and human rights: constructing the rule of law in postconflict Guatemala? / Rachel Sieder -- 4. The Labyrinth of Translation: A Tzeltal Version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Pedro Pitarch -- 5. Are Human Rights Destroying the Natural Balance of All Things? The Diffcult Encounter between International Law and Community Law in Mayan Guatemala / Stener Ekern -- Here it's different: the Ch'orti and human rights training / Julián López García -- 7. Indigenous Law and Gender Dialogues / Irma Otzoy -- 8. Human Rights, Land Conflicts, and Memory of the Violence in the Ixil Country of Northern Quiché / David Stoll -- 9. Global Discourses on the Local Terrain: Human Rights in Chiapas / Shannon Speed and Xochitl Leyva Solano -- 10. Breaking the Reign of Silence: Ethnography of a Clandestine Cemetery / Victoria Sanford -- 11. Rights of the Poor: Progressive Catholicism and Indigenous Resistance in Chiapas / Christine Kovic -- 12. Asumiendo nuestra propia defensa: Resistance and the Red de Defensores Comunitarios in Chiapas / Shannon Speed and Alvaro Reyes -- Final Comments, Making Rights Meaningful for Mayas: Reflections on Culture, Rights, and Power / Richard Ashby Wilson
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-355) and index
Umfang:ix, 377 p map
ISBN:9780822389057
0822389053