附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-461) and index.
Toward a cross-cultural approach to defining international standards of human rights : the meaning of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment / Abdullahi A. An-Naim -- Cultural foundations for the international protection of human rights / Richard Falk -- Making a goddess of democracy from loose sand : thoughts on human rights in the People's Republic of China / William P. Alford -- Dignity, community, and human rights / Rhoda E. Howard -- Postliberal strands in Western human rights theory : personalist-communitarian perspectives/ Virginia A. Leary -- Should communities have rights? : reflections on liberal individualism / Michael McDonald -- A Marxian approach to human rights / Richard Nordahl.
North American Indian perspectives on human rights / James W. Zion -- Aboriginal communities, aboriginal rights, and the human rights system in Canada / Allan McChesney -- Political culture and gross human rights violations in Latin America / Hugo Fruhling -- Custom is not a thing, it is a path : reflections on the Brazilian Indian case / Manuela Carneiro da Cunha -- Cultural legitimacy in the formulation and implementation of human rights law and policy in Australia / Patricia Hyndman -- Considering gender : are human rights for women, too? : an Australian case / Diane Bell -- Right to self-determination : a basic human right concerning cultural survival, the case of the Sami and the Scandinavian state / Tom G. Svensson.
Prospects for research on the cultural legitimacy of human rights : the cases of liberalism and Marxism / Tore Lindholm -- Conclusion / Abdullah A. An-Naim.
摘要:Human rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror and sadness. Yet, as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and his contributors attest, our viewpoint is clouded and biased by the expectations native to our own culture. How do other cultures view human rights issues? Can an analysis of these issues through multiple viewpoints, both cross-cultural and indigenous, help us reinterpret and reconstruct prevailing theories of human rights? Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University and the editor of Human Rights Under African Constitutions, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
