Human rights and human rites: advocacy, relativism, and the issue of female genital mutilation

dc.contributor.author	Digan, Becky
dc.date.accessioned	2008-11-30T01:14:00Z
dc.date.available	2008-11-30T01:14:00Z
dc.date.issued	2002
dc.identifier.citation	Digan, Becky. (2002). Human rights and human rites: advocacy, relativism, and the issue of female genital mutilation. -- Lambda Alpha Journal, 2002, p.18-27.	en
dc.identifier.issn	0047-3928
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1704
dc.description.abstract	Author critically considers the tension within the discipline of anthropology between moral relativists and the advocacy anthropologists who call for research, political action, educational programming, and policy making to eradicate female genital mutilation.	en
dc.format.extent	658534 bytes
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	LAJ	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	v.32	en
dc.subject	Human rights	en
dc.subject	Cultural relativism	en
dc.subject	Female genital mutilation	en
dc.subject	Female circumcision	en
dc.subject	Cultural heterogeneity	en
dc.subject	Professional ethics	en
dc.subject	Cultural advocacy	en
dc.subject	Moral relativism	en
dc.title	Human rights and human rites: advocacy, relativism, and the issue of female genital mutilation	en
dc.type	Article	en