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...Bonny Ibhawoh Abstract Human rights doctrine is founded on a notion of universality and inalienability. However, critics of the dominant formulation of “universal” human rights claim that it privileges Western epistemology and does not adequately reflect the histories and lived experiences...

... human rights. Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016 Akimel O'odham Pima sacred stories petitions natural resources modernity References Allen Nathan 1995 “O'odham Himdag: The O'odham Way.” Wicazo Sa Review 11 , no. 2 : 87 – 89 . [ Allison...

... on board captured slave ships to provide information to British naval officers. Numerous interpreters and translators were Africans or African descendants. Using language skills and knowledge of the Atlantic world, these “Atlantic Creoles” defended personal freedoms and the human rights of others during...

... and Girls, Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea. In Reflections on Violence in Melanesia. Sinclair Dinnen and Allison Ley, eds. Pp. 159 -71. Sydney: Hawkins; Canberra: Asia Pacific. George, Nicole 2001 Melanesian Women and the Articulation of a Human Rights Discourse. Paper presented...

... Guate- mala’s Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office discovered the National Police Archives, the existence of which national authorities had denied. Given the National Police’s central role in kidnapping, torturing, and executing alleged subversives during the nation’s civil war (1960–96), the find...

..., the International Labour Organization, and the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights (Anaya 2004 : 49–96; Engle 2010 : 46–140). 4 Since its introduction into international law circles, indigenous has come to be used as an umbrella term that encompasses such categories as Indian , native...

... the reshaping of research practices in the context of historical inquiry into breaches to the Treaty of Waitangi and shifting priorities in public institutions as they seek to embed bicultural principles. Bonny Ibhawoh works at continental scale, aiming to decolonize the discourse of human rights from...

... and paramilitaries solidi«ed alliances to delegitimize the Left. Carroll’s work also touches on the counterreformation’s ability to jump from right-wing alliances to left-wing alliances; however, her greatest contribution is to highlight, «rst, the Left’s ability to generate alliances with foreign human...

... to the political and economic projects of late capitalism. Part 2, “Bonesetting,” is a must-read for scholars of genocide, human rights, and Indigenous organizing throughout the Americas. It maps and analyzes the polemics surrounding what are considered adequate measures of counting war disappeared and dead...

... for Ethnohistory 2009 Appadurai, Arjun 1988 Putting Hierarchy in Its Place. Cultural Anthropology 3 : 36 -49. Asad, Talal, ed. 1973 Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter . Amherst, NY: Humanity. Asch, Michael 1984 Home and Native Land: Aboriginal Rights and the Canadian Constitution...

... of violence, exploitation, and suffering. In The Guatemala Reader, letters from conquistadores, the Rabinal Achí and Popol Vuh, photography, cartoons, Kaqchikel paintings and murals, jokes, testimonio, sculpture, recipes, guerrilla manifestos, poetry, redacted governmental and police reports, human...

... American law as the basis for the protection of Indian rights. William Potter Ross (Cherokee) focused on social and economic progress to pro- duce autonomy and peaceful relations in the post–­Civil War era. Activists such as Sarah Winnemucca (Paiute) shifted tactics, appealing to universal human...

... requested that he take special care to protect “unfavoured and forgotten” Indigenous women. She expanded on this particular aspect, arguing that the poor treatment of Canada’s Aboriginal women is even more intolerable because Canada is a country that believes itself to be a defender of human rights. 54...

.... I don t think the res should dis- courage our ght for civil and human rights. It was a sad moment. There was snow on the ground and the pastor had not been paid. We had nowhere to have service. We are standing around watching this part of history go up. This is where a school was going to exist...

... and human rights in the Amazon (Garfield 2004; Menezes 2000). The public image of Xingu as a natural and cultural sanctuary—a para- dise—was constructed by the government and publicized by the media, being highly influential in the creation of the Park as a postalcard of Bra- zilian natural...

... organizations and underground political activists, oral history, film and theater, nongovernmental organiza- tion records and materials, Catholic Church and human rights organization archives, and the visual archives of the national television station (TVN). While Stern bases his study primarily...

... and the Making of America . New York : Hill and Wang . Merrell James H. 2012 . “ Second Thoughts on Colonial Historians and American Indians .” William and Mary Quarterly 69 , no. 3 : 451 – 512 . Niezen Ronald . 2003 . The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics...

... bombs, on 5 July 2005 investigators from Guate- mala’s Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office discovered the National Police Archives, the existence of which national authorities had denied. Given the National Police’s central role in kidnapping, torturing, and executing alleged subversives during...

... : University of North Carolina Press . Niezen Ronald 2003 The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity . Berkeley : University of California Press . Platt Steven G. Brantley Christopher G. 1997 Canebrakes: An Ecological and Historical Perspective...