Culture and Rights

'It is difficult to fault this excellent collection, which is very well edited and rich in detail and theoretical analysis.' Gerard Delanty, Global Review of Ethnopolitics

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Setting Universal Rights: 2. Changing rights, changing culture Sally Engle Merry; 3. Following the movement of a pendulum: between universalism and relativism Marie-Bénédicte Dembour; 4. Imposing rights? - a case study of child prostitution in Thailand Heather Montgomery; 5. Gendering culture: towards a plural perspective of Kwena women's rights Anne Griffiths; 6. Between universalism and relativism: a critique of the UNESCO concept of culture Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Part II. Claiming Cultural Rights: 7. Ambiguities of an emancipatory discourse: The making of a Macedonian minority in Greece Jane K. Cowan; 8. From cultural rights to individual rights and back: Nepalese struggles over culture and identity David Gellner; 9. Advancing indigenous claims through the law: Reflections on the Guatemalan peace process Rachel Sieder and Jessica Witchell; 10. Rights as the reward for simulated cultural sameness: the Innu in the Canadian colonial context Colin Samson.