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100 1 _aMutua, Makau.
245 1 0 _aHuman rights :
_ba political and cultural critique /
_cMakau Mutua.
260 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania,
_cc2002.
300 _aix, 252 p. ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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440 0 _aPennsylvania studies in human rights
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: 1. Human Rights as a Metaphor 10 -- The Metaphor of Human Rights 10 -- The Grand Narrative of Human Rights 15 -- The Metaphor of the Savage 22 -- The Metaphor of the Victim 27 -- The Metaphor of the Savior 31 -- 2. Human Rights as an Ideology 39 -- The Authors of Human Rights 39 -- A Holy Trinity: Liberalism, Democracy, and Human Rights 44 -- The Conventional Doctrinalists 47 -- The Conceptualizers 56 -- The Cultural Pluralists 64 -- Political Strategists and Instrumentalists 67 -- 3. Human Rights and the African Fingerprint 71 -- Africa in a Rights Universe 71 -- Human Rights in Precolonial Africa 74 -- The Dialectic of Rights and Duties 82 -- The Duty/Rights Conception 84 -- Whither Africa? 92 -- 4. Human Rights, Religion, and Proselytism 94 -- The Problem of Religious Rights 94 -- Demonizing the "Other" 98.
583 _aCataloguing:
_c20260911
_kgtanuigtanui
650 0 _aHuman rights.
650 0 _aHuman rights
_zAfrica.
650 0 _aHuman rights
_zSouth Africa.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2001050750.html
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