Anthropology and Human Rights in Latin America

• Autores: Ellen Messer
• Localización: Journal of Latin American Anthropology, ISSN 1085-7052, Vol. 1, Nº. 1, 1995, págs. 48-97
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Human rights issues in Latin America have been actively pursed in anthropology during the past seven years. A summary of recent changes in anthropology and human rights precedes a discussion structured by categories used by human rights scholars and advocates: civil-political; ecoromic-soclal-cultural; development; and Indigenous rights. Interpretatlons suggest that anthropologists have been very active In documenting human rights abuses, but less Involved In building cross-cultural understandings of rights, Due in part, to the continuing challenges of cultural relativism, the author raises Important questions about the expanding anthropological discourse on human rights