EPISODE · Apr 28, 2013 · 9 MIN

Human Rights

from The Audible Anthropologist · host Dr Nick Herriman

According to 1948 UN declaration all humans have rights to life, liberty and security, law and trial, asylum etc. This created a new kind of right. Formerly, rights used to be through contracts or arrangements. Now you could have rights without this—just by being human. How does an anthropologist think about this? The idea of Human Rights presents problems of relativism versus universalism. Nevertheless, a more fruitful line analysis focuses on how the idea is taken up in local contexts. After all anthropology is the study of big concepts in little places. So in this podcast I discuss how this new, largely Western idea of Human Rights has been adopted and appropriated in different contexts. Copyright 2013 Nicholas Herriman / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

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