Negotiating Culture and Human Rights

American scholars from a broad range of disciplines, including law, political science, history, and criminology, gathered at Columbia University in the summer of 1997 for The Asian Values Debate: Human Rights and the Study of Culture as Problems for Area Studies seminar. The 14 papers that emerged cover human rights and the Asian values debate, culturally informed arguments for universal human rights, human rights law and its limits, rights discourse and power relations, and beyond universalism and relativism. Texts of three declarations on human rights are appended. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)