Acknowledgments
Introduction
-Abdullahi A. An-Na'im
SECTION I.GENERAL ISSUES OF A CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS
1. Toward a Cross-Cultural Approach to Defining International Standards of Human Rights: The Meaning of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
-Abdullahi A. An-Na'im
2. Cultural Foundations for the International Protection of Human Rights
-Richard Falk
3. Making a Goddess of Democracy from Loose Sand: Thoughts on Human Rights in the People's Republic of China
-William P. Alford
4. Dignity, Community, and Human Rights
-Rhoda E. Howard
SECTION II.PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL INTERPRETATION
5. Postliberal Strands in Western Human Rights Theory: Personalist-Communitarian Perspectives
-Virginia A. Leary
6. Should Communities Have Rights? Reflections on Liberal Individualism
-Michael McDonald
7. A Marxian Approach to Human Rights
-Richard Nordahl
SECTION III.REGIONAL AND INDIGENOUS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS
8. North American Indian Perspectives on Human Rights
-James W. Zion
9. Aboriginal Communities, Aboriginal Rights, and the Human Rights System in Canada
-Allan McChesney
10. Political Culture and Gross Human Rights Violations in Latin America
-Hugo Fruhling
11. Custom Is Not a Thing, It Is a Path: Reflections on the Brazilian Indian Case
-Manuela Carneiro da Cunha
12. Cultural Legitimacy in the Formulation and Implementation of Human Rights Law and Policy in Australia
-Patricia Hyndman
13. Considering Gender: Are Human Rights for Women, Too? An Australian Case
-Diane Bell
14. Right to Self-Determination: A Basic Human Right Concerning Cultural Survival. The Case of the Sami and the Scandinavian State
-Tom G. Svensson
SECTION IV.PROSPECTS FOR A CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS
15. Prospects for Research on the Cultural Legitimacy of Human Rights: The Cases of Liberalism and Marxism
-Tore Lindholm
Conclusion
-Abdullahi A. An-Na'im
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