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