ADVOCACY ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

 

Aga Khan, Sadruddin and Hasan bin Talal, 1990. Indigenous Peoples: A Global Quest for Justice. Altantic Highlands: Zed Books, Ltd.


Akwe:kon Journal, 1994 (Summer) Chiapas: Challenging History.
Ithaca, NY: Akwe:kon Press.


AAA Executive Board, 1947. "Statement on Human Rights," American Anthropologist 49(4):539-543.


Amnesty International, 1992. Human Rights Violations Against Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. New York: Amnesty International.


Annonymous, 1982. "The Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples," special issue of the Journal of International Affairs 36(1).


An-Na`im, Abdullahi Ahmed, ed., 1992. Human Rights in Cross- Cultural Perspective: A Quest for Consensus. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Press.


An-Na`im, Abdullahi Ahmed, and Francis M. Deng, eds. 1990. Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Washington, D.C.: Breookings Institution.


Barash, David P., 1991. "Human Rights," in his Introduction to Peace Studies, Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Co., Ch. 20, pp. 463-492.

Bell, Lynda S., Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg, eds., 2001, Negotiating Culture and Human Rights, New York, NY: Columbia University Press.


Berreman, Gerald D., 1980. "Are Human Rights Merely a Politicized Luxury in the World Today?," Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 5:5-13.


Berting, Jan, et al., eds., 1990. Human Rights in a Pluralist World: Individuals and Collectivities. Westport: Meckler.
Bodley, John, 1999. Victims of Progress. Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing.


Brown, Donald E., 1991. "The Universal People," in his Human Universals. NY: McGraw-Hill, Inc., Ch. 6, pp. 130-141.


Brownlie, Ian, ed., 1981. Basic Documents on Human Rights. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.


Burger, Julian, 1987. Report from the Frontier: The State of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books, Ltd.


Center for the Study of Human Rights, 1992. Twenty-Four Human Rights Documents, NY: Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights.


Cohen, Ronald, 1989. "Human Rights and Cultural Relativism: The Need for a New Approach," American Anthropologist 91:1014-1017.


Cranston, Maurice, 1962. What Are Human Rights? NY: Basic Books.


Cultural Survival, 1987. Southeast Asian Tribal Groups and Ethnic Minorities. Cambridge: Cultural Survival, Inc.


Donnelly, Jack, 1989. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.


Donnelly, Jack, and Rhoda E. Howard, eds., 1987. International Handbook of Human Rights. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.


Downing, Theodore E., and Gilbert Kushner, eds., 1988. Human Rights and Anthropology. Cambridge: Cultural Survival, Inc.

Durning, Alan Thein, 1993. "Supporting Indigenous People," in State of the World 1993, Lester R. Brown, ed., Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute, Ch. 5, pp. 80-100.


Dwyer, Kevin, 1991. Arab Voices: The Human Rights Debate in the Middle East. Berkeley: University of California Press.


Fein, Helen, ed., 1992. Genocide Watch. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.


Garling, Marguerite, 1979. The Human Rights Handbook: A Guide to British and American International Human Rights Organizations. NY: Facts on File.


Gelman, Anne, and Milos Stehlik, 1985. Human Rights Film Guide. Chicago, IL: Facets Multimedia, Inc.


Greaves, Thomas, ed., 1994. Intellectual Proerty Rights for Indigenous Peoples: A Source Book. Oklahoma City, OK: Society for Applied Anthropology.


Hasager, Ulla, and Jonathan Friedman, eds., 1994. Hawai`i: Return to Nationhood. Copenhagen, Denmark: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Document No. 75.


Indian Law Resource Center, 1984. Indian Rights, Human Rights: Handbook for Indians on International Human Rights Complaints. Washington, D.C.: Indian Law Resource Center.


Jaimes, M.A., ed., 1992. The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance. Boston: South End Press.


Johnston, Barbara R., ed., 1994. Who Pays the Price? Examining the Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.


Journal of International Affairs 1982 (Spring/Summer), Special Issue "The Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples," v. 36, no. 1.


Laqueur, Walter, and Barry Rubin, eds., 1979. The Human Rights Reader. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.


Lawson, Edward, 1991. Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Bristol: Taylor and Francis, Inc.


LeMarchand, Rene, 1994. Burundi: Ethnocide as Discourse and Practice. NY: Cambridge University Press.


Lynch, James, et al., eds., 1992. Human Rights, Education and Global Responsibilities. Bristol, PA: Taylor and Francis Group.


Kuper, Leo, 1981. Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press.


MacKenzie, Melody Kapilialoha, ed., 1991. Native Hawaiian Rights Handbook. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.


Messer, Ellen, 1993. "Anthropology and Human Rights," Annual Review of Anthropology v. 22.


Miller, Marc, ed., 1993. State of the Nations: A Global Human Rights Report on Societies in Danger. Boston: Beacon Press.


Milne, A.J.M., 1986. Human Rights and Human Diversity. NY: Macmillan.


Montejo, Victor, 1991. Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press.


Morris, C. Patrick, Guest Editor, 1993. "Special Edition: International Year of Indigenous Discovery and Human Rights," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 17(1):1-240.

Nagengast, Carole, and Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez, eds., 2004, Human Rights and the Scholar Activist, Oklahoma City, OK: Society for Applied Anthropology.


Nickel, James W., 1987. Making Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.


Ortiz, R.D., 1984. Indians of the Americas: Self-Determination and Human Rights. NY: Prager.


Paine, Robert, ed., 1985. Advocacy and Anthropology. St. Johns: University of Newfoundland Press.


Pennock, J. Roland, and John W. Chapman, eds., 1981. Human Rights. NY: New York University Press.


Robie, David, ed., 1989. Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific. Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books, Ltd.

Rosenbaum, Alan S., ed., 1980. The Philosophy of Human Rights: International Perspectives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Schwab, Peter, and Adamantia Pollis, eds., 1982. Toward a Human Rights Framework. NY: Praeger.

Sohn, Louis B., and Thomas Buergenthal, eds., 1985. Basic Documents On International Protection of Human Rights. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc.

Staub, Erwin, 1992. The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence. NY: Columbia University Press.

Stephen, Lynn, 1994. Hear My Testimony: Maria Teresa Tula, Human Rights Activist of El Salvador. Boston, MA: South End Press.

Thompson, Kenneth W., ed., 1980. The Moral Imperative of Human Rights: A World Survey. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America.

Thoolen, Hans, and Berth Verstappen, 1986. Human Rights Missions: A Study of the Fact-finding Practice of Non- Governmental Organizations. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group.

Turner, Terence, and Carole Nagengast, 1997 (Fall), "Universal Human Rights versus Cultural Relativity," Special Issue of the Journal of Anthropological Research 53(3):267-381.

VanDyke, Vernon, 1985. Human Rights, Ethnicity, and Discrimination. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Washburn, Wilcomb E., 1987. "Cultural Relativism, Human Rights, and the AAA," American Anthropologist 89:939-943.

Wilson, Richard A., ed., 1997, Human Rights, Culture, and Context: Anthropological Perspectives, Chicago, IL: Pluto Press.

Wright, Robin, 1988. "Anthropological Presuppositions of Indigenous Advocacy," Annual Review of Anthropology 17:365-390.

 

Also see the Publications Catalog and the annual reports and country reports from Amnesty International, country reports from the U.S. Department of State, and the Catalog of Cultural Survival, Inc., which includes a topical and geographic list of reports and other documents from Cultural Survival, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, and Minority Rights Group. Also see the cumulative indexes for Cultural Survival Quarterly.

HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS*

Amnesty International Survival International
322 Eigth Ave. 310 Edgware Rd.
New York, NY 10001 London W2 1DY, UK

Anti-Slavery Society World Council of
180 Brixton Road Indigenous Peoples
London SW9 6AT, UK 555 King Edward
KlN 6N5 Ottawa, Canada
Cultural Survival, Inc.
215 First Street Minority Rights Group
Cambridge, MA 02142 379 Brixton Road
London SWE 7DE UK
Human Rights Centre
United Nations Rainforest Action Network
Palais de Nations 450 Sansome Street
CH 1211 Geneva 10 San Francisco, CA 94111
Switzerland

Human Rights Internet
c/o Human Rights Centre
University of Ottawa
57 Louis Pasteur
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
Canada

Human Rights Watch
485 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10017

Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights
Organization of American States
1889 F Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006

International Work Group for
Indigenous Affairs
Fiolstraede 10
DK-1171 Copenhagen K, Denmark

* For links to web sites of organizations on human rights see the Web Sites in the lefthand menu of Sponsel's homepage.