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Cultural diversity, as expressed for instance in different normative orders or legal cultures, poses both a practical and a theoretical challenge to the idea of universal human rights. In the present volume, the authors seek to address and contain this challenge with a view to the changing nature of the global society. While 'culture' is sometimes signposted as an obstacle to human rights on the ground, this volume suggests that in so far as the global 'culture of human rights' is primarily seen as a formal and institutional order based on a particular view of equal human worth, local cultures cannot trump it. The main point is that the culture of human rights is inclusive of all and must maintain a standard by which all peoples and cultures can measure their own performances. Further, and as demonstrated in the present volume from a range of disciplines such as law, literature, history and anthropology, culture is not a mental prison but a particular outlook upon the world, for ever changing in response to new experiences and insights.

Human rights --- Multiculturalism --- Law and legislation

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Anthropological knowledge is embodied in words, and yet most social experience - such as fieldwork - lies beyond language. Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge focuses on this paradox and on the actual processes leading from individual experiences in the field to the production of anthropological knowledge. The contributors emphasize the value of fieldwork in the process of knowledge production. Against the background of recent debates in anthropology on subjectivity, they challenge the distinction between subjectivity and objectivity, redefine what we should mean by 'empirical', and demonstrate the complexity of present-day epistemological problems by way of concrete examples. They trace the route from the field experience to the analytical results, showing how fieldwork enables the ethnographer to arrive at an understanding, not only of 'culture' or 'society', but also of the processes by which cultures and societies are transformed. Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge shows a clear way out of the impasse created by postmodernism and its claim to have dismantled science. By demystifying subjectivity in the ethnographic process and re-emphasizing the vital position of fieldwork, the book will do much to renew confidence in the anthropological project of comprehending the world.

Ethnology --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Fieldwork --- Methodology --- Recherche sur le terrain --- Méthodologie --- Field work. --- Methodology. --- Fieldwork. --- Méthodologie --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Ethnology - Field work. --- Ethnology - Methodology. --- #SBIB:39A3 --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Social anthropology

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Discrimination on the basis of race, gender or other ascribed group affiliations or individual identities is an all too well-known phenomenon. International instruments are invoked and refined to alter this situation, but often to little avail. In the present volume, authors from across the globe explore the nature and forms of discrimination and seek to establish a new conceptual ground for addressing the issue. Toleration is often advocated as a remedy for discriminatory practices. In contrast to tolerance, which is seen as an attitude, toleration implies an active engaging of difference. In this volume, several authors address the inherent complexities of the notion itself, not least the implication of asymmetry between the tolerant and the tolerated. A central theme throughout the volume is the relative force of law and other areas of public concern in addressing the issues of both discrimination and toleration. From a wide range of legal, literary, anthropological, and philosophical perspectives, the authors also show how the role of the intellectual is vital in reshaping the discourse and in redirecting practices that may affirm the equal worth of all humans.

Discrimination --- Toleration

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930.21 <48> --- 948 --- Historiografie. Geschiedenis van de geschiedwetenschap--Skandinavië --- Geschiedenis van Scandinavië --- Scandinavia --- Fennoscandia --- Norden --- Nordic countries --- History --- -Congresses. --- 948 Geschiedenis van Scandinavië --- 930.21 <48> Historiografie. Geschiedenis van de geschiedwetenschap--Skandinavië --- Congresses. --- 948 History of Scandinavia --- History of Scandinavia --- Histoire --- Methodologie