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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1991.

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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?

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

—Abdullahi A. An-Na'im

SECTION I.GENERAL ISSUES OF A CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS

1. 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-Na'im

2. Cultural Foundations for the International Protection of Human Rights

—Richard Falk

3. Making a Goddess of Democracy from Loose Sand: Thoughts on Human Rights in the People's Republic of China

—William P. Alford

4. Dignity, Community, and Human Rights

—Rhoda E. Howard

SECTION II.PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL INTERPRETATION

5. Postliberal Strands in Western Human Rights Theory: Personalist-Communitarian Perspectives

—Virginia A. Leary

6. Should Communities Have Rights? Reflections on Liberal Individualism

—Michael McDonald

7. A Marxian Approach to Human Rights

—Richard Nordahl

SECTION III.REGIONAL AND INDIGENOUS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS

8. North American Indian Perspectives on Human Rights

—James W. Zion

9. Aboriginal Communities, Aboriginal Rights, and the Human Rights System in Canada

—Allan McChesney

10. Political Culture and Gross Human Rights Violations in Latin America

—Hugo Fruhling

11. Custom Is Not a Thing, It Is a Path: Reflections on the Brazilian Indian Case

—Manuela Carneiro da Cunha

12. Cultural Legitimacy in the Formulation and Implementation of Human Rights Law and Policy in Australia

—Patricia Hyndman

13. Considering Gender: Are Human Rights for Women, Too? An Australian Case

—Diane Bell

14. Right to Self-Determination: A Basic Human Right Concerning Cultural Survival. The Case of the Sami and the Scandinavian State

—Tom G. Svensson

SECTION IV.PROSPECTS FOR A CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS

15. Prospects for Research on the Cultural Legitimacy of Human Rights: The Cases of Liberalism and Marxism

—Tore Lindholm

Conclusion

—Abdullahi A. An-Na'im

Bibliography

Contributors

Index