Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-394) and index.

Includes Web resources.

Introduction : human rights and anthropology / Mark Goodale -- Conceptual and historical foundations -- Statement on human rights (1947) and commentaries / American Anthropological Association, Julian Steward, H. G. Barnett -- The decline of the nation-state and the end of the rights of man / Hannah Arendt -- The good, the bad, and the intolerable : minority group rights / Will Kymlicka -- Toward a cross-cultural approach to defining international standards of human rights / Abudullahi Ahmed An-Na'im -- Human rights and capabilities / Amartya Sen -- Anthropology and human rights activism -- Declaration on anthropology and human rights (1999) / Committe for Human Rights, American Anthropological Association -- Anthropology, human rights, and social transformation / Ellen Messer -- Excavations of the heart : healing fragmented communities / Victoria Sanford -- Rethinking health and human rights : time for a paradigm shift / Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau -- Rotten trade : millennial capitalism, human values and global justice in organs trafficking / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Do anthropologists have an ethical obligation to promote human rights? : an open exchange / Terence Turner, Laura R. Graham, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Jane K. Cowan -- The ethnography of human rights practices -- Representing human rights violations : social contexts and subjectivities / Richard. A. Wilson -- Gendered intersections : collective and individual rights in indigenous women's experience / Shannon Speed -- Human rights and moral panics : listening to popular grievances / Harri Englund -- Legal transplants and cultural translation : making human rights in the vernacular / Sally Engle Merry -- Critical anthropologies of human rights -- Culture and rights after Culture and rights / Jane K. Cowan -- Human rights as cultural practice : an anthropological critique / Ann-Belinda S. Preis -- Between universalism and relativism : a critique of the UNESCO concept of culture / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Toward a critical anthropology of human rights / Mark Goodale -- Appendix : websites on human rights -- Index.