ANTH 181

Anthropology of Human Rights

Examines multiple dimensions of human rights from an anthropological perspective. Explores the history and development of human rights ideas and legal conventions, and how these ideas and conventions are appropriated, adapted, contested or rejected in different cultural and political contexts. Using ethnographic case studies from around the world, addresses how the human rights discourse mediates the relationship between specific groups of people, their national states and international conventions and institutions.

Units: 3.0