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1 online resource (ix, 377 pages) : map |
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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 |
| Summary |
Investigation of human rights and anthropology's involvement with human rights in Mesoamerica, a region which has become one of a handful of testing grounds for this theme in the world |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-355) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Maya gnd |
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Mayas -- Government relations
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Mayas -- Legal status, laws, etc
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Human rights -- Mexico -- Chiapas
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Human rights -- Guatemala
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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Ethnic relations
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Human rights
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Mayas -- Government relations
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Mayas -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Indigenes Volk
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Minderheitenrecht
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Menschenrecht
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Grundrechte -- Menschenwürde -- Maya.
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Menschenwürde -- Grundrechte -- Maya.
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Chiapas (Mexico) -- Ethnic relations
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Guatemala -- Ethnic relations
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Guatemala
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Mexico -- Chiapas
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Chiapas
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Guatemala
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Maya.
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Electronic book
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Pitarch Ramón, Pedro
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Speed, Shannon, 1964-
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Leyva Solano, Xochitl
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| ISBN |
9780822389057 |
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0822389053 |
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