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Ulf Johansson Dahre

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Searching for a middle ground : anthropologists and the debate on the universalism and the cultural relativism of human rights

Författare

  • Ulf Johansson Dahre

Summary, in English

In the anthropological debate on human rights a new theoretical approach, a search for a middle ground, has been attempted to solve the dilemma of universalism versus cultural relativism. In the human rights discussion in general, and in the anthropological debate in particular, the dichotomy of universalism/relativism is seen as one major obstacle to the implementation. This article takes a critical outlook at this discussion in anthropology, arguing that there is no such middle ground between universalism and cultural relativism, neither in relation to the definition of the rights, nor the implementation. Instead, this article attempts, through an example from Borneo, to point the way to a human rights theory, called relative universalism of human rights. This is a theoretical approach integrating universalism and cultural relativism instead of trying to find some moral space in-between.

Avdelning/ar

  • Socialantropologi

Publiceringsår

2017-06-13

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

611-628

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Human Rights

Volym

21

Issue

5

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • Social Anthropology

Nyckelord

  • anthropology
  • Borneo
  • cultural relativism
  • Human rights
  • relative universalism
  • universalism

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Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1744-053X