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Mamdani Mahmood

Beyond rights talk and culture talk : Comprative essays on the politics of rights and culture - South Africa David Philip Publishers 2000 - 170p vi

Contents
'Culture' and human rights : orientalising, occidentalising and authenticity / Marin Chanock;
Contradictory perspectives on rights and justice in the context of land tenure reform in Tanzania / Issa G. Shivji;
Were the critics right about rights? Reassessing the American debate about rights in the post-reform era / Kimberle Crenshaw;
State, community and the debate on the uniform civil code in India / Nivedita Menon;
Religious revivalism, human rights activism and the struggle for women's rights in Nigeria / Hussaina J. Abdullah;
Tensions in legal and religious values in the 1996 South African Constitution / Ebrahim Moosa;
The African customary law of marriage and the rights conundrum / Thandabantu Nhlapo

ISBN: 9780864864291

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Human Rights - Cultural Aspects2. Culture - Human Rights -= Comparative Essays

Dewey Class. No.: 342.085000 / MAM