Against superciliousness: Revisiting the debate 60 years after the adoption of the universal declaration of human rights

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 371-395

  Kalny, Eva ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activism; History; Human rights; Othering; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249091519     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: 14603721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X09336701     Document Type: Article

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