Introduction: The social life of rights

Human Rights in Global Perspective: Anthropological Studies of Rights, Claims and Entitlements

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-15

  Wilson, Richard Ashby ^a   Mitchell, Jon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203506271     Document Type: Editorial

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