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Human Rights and Wrongs: A Place for Anthropologists? (1998)

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This chapter is based on a revised version of a paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1998.

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  1. 1.

    Published in: Carole Nagengast and Carlos Vélez Ibañez (Eds.), 2004: Human Rights: the Scholar as Activist, Society for Applied Anthropology, 237 pages. The permission to republish this text was granted on 19 July 2012 by Melissa Cope, Society for Applied Anthropology, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.

  2. 2.

    See the International Criminal Court’s web site, at: <http://www.un.org/law/icc/>.

  3. 3.

    Note the pre-gender conscious wording of the text.

  4. 4.

    For a survey of scientific racism and its fortunes, see Barkan (1992).

  5. 5.

    For a fuller treatment of the minorities issue, see Stavenhagen (1990).

  6. 6.

    UNESCO has catalogued a roster of sites around the world that deserve this label.

  7. 7.

    See Caso (1971), Gamio (1972), and Marroquin (1972).

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Stavenhagen, R. (2013). Human Rights and Wrongs: A Place for Anthropologists? (1998). In: Pioneer on Indigenous Rights. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34150-2_6

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