LEADER 00000cam 2200625 i 4500 001 ocn861793107 003 OCoLC 005 20220617050316.0 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 131031s1995 pau ob 001 0 eng d 020 9780812200195|q(electronic bk.) 020 0812200195|q(electronic bk.) 020 |z0812215680 020 |z9780812215687 035 (OCoLC)861793107|z(OCoLC)929156532|z(OCoLC)932312330 040 JSTOR|beng|erda|epn|cJSTOR|dOCLCF|dEBLCP|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO |dZCU|dMERUC|dOCLCQ|dIOG|dOCLCO|dOCLCA|dEZ9|dICG|dTXC|dAU@ |dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dLVT|dDKC|dOCLCQ|dOCLCA|dSNU|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO 049 MAIN 050 4 K3240.6|b.H838 1995eb 082 04 323|222 245 00 Human rights in cross-cultural perspectives :|ba quest for consensus /|cedited by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naʻim. 264 1 Philadelphia :|bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,|c1995. 300 1 online resource (vii, 479 pages) 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 data file 490 1 University of Pennsylvania Press Pennsylvania studies in human rights 505 0 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. 505 8 5. Postliberal Strands in Western Human Rights Theory: Personalist-Communitarian Perspectives6. 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. 505 8 12. Cultural Legitimacy in the Formulation and Implementation of Human Rights Law and Policy in Australia13. 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. 650 0 Human rights. 700 1 Naʻīm, ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad,|d1946- 776 08 |iPrint version:|tHuman rights in cross-cultural perspectives|z0812215680|w(OCoLC)44744532 830 0 Pennsylvania studies in human rights. 856 40 |uhttps://hull.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https:// www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhr99 921 . 936 JSTOREBA2021/22 994 92|bUKHLL