Introduction. Locating rights, envisioning law between the global and the local / Mark Goodale = 1
pt. I. States of violence
Introduction / Sally Engle Merry = 41
Human rights as culprit, human rights as victim: rights and security in the states of exception / Daniel Goldstein = 49
''Secularism is a human right!': double-binds of Buddhism, democracy, and identity in Nepal / Lauren Leve = 78
pt. II. Registers of power
Introduction / Laura Nader = 115
The power of right(s): tracking empires of law and new modes of social resistance in Bolivia (and elsewhere) / Mark Goodale = 130
Exercising rights and reconfiguring resistance in the the Zapatista Juntas de Buen Gobierno / Shannon Speed = 163
pt. III. Conditions of vulnerability
Introduction / Sally Engle Merry = 195
Rights to indigenous culture in Colombia / Jean Jackson = 204
The 2000 UN Human Trafficking Protocol: rights, enforcement, vulnerabilities / Kay Warren = 242
pt. IV. Encountering ambivalence
Introduction / Balakrishnan Rajagopal = 273
Transnational legal conflict between peasants and corporations in Burma : human rights and discursive ambivalence under the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act / John G. Dale = 285
Being Swazi, being human: custom, constitutionalism and human rights in an African monarchy / Sari Wastell = 320
Conclusion. Tyrannosaurus lex: the anthropology of human rights and transnational law / Richard Ashby Wilson = 342
pt. I. States of violence
Introduction / Sally Engle Merry = 41
Human rights as culprit, human rights as victim: rights and security in the states of exception / Daniel Goldstein = 49
''Secularism is a human right!': double-binds of Buddhism, democracy, and identity in Nepal / Lauren Leve = 78
pt. II. Registers of power
Introduction / Laura Nader = 115
The power of right(s): tracking empires of law and new modes of social resistance in Bolivia (and elsewhere) / Mark Goodale = 130
Exercising rights and reconfiguring resistance in the the Zapatista Juntas de Buen Gobierno / Shannon Speed = 163
pt. III. Conditions of vulnerability
Introduction / Sally Engle Merry = 195
Rights to indigenous culture in Colombia / Jean Jackson = 204
The 2000 UN Human Trafficking Protocol: rights, enforcement, vulnerabilities / Kay Warren = 242
pt. IV. Encountering ambivalence
Introduction / Balakrishnan Rajagopal = 273
Transnational legal conflict between peasants and corporations in Burma : human rights and discursive ambivalence under the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act / John G. Dale = 285
Being Swazi, being human: custom, constitutionalism and human rights in an African monarchy / Sari Wastell = 320
Conclusion. Tyrannosaurus lex: the anthropology of human rights and transnational law / Richard Ashby Wilson = 342