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

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Digan, Becky
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2002
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Article
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Human rights , Cultural relativism , Female genital mutilation , Female circumcision , Cultural heterogeneity , Professional ethics , Cultural advocacy , Moral relativism
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Digan, Becky. (2002). Human rights and human rites: advocacy, relativism, and the issue of female genital mutilation. -- Lambda Alpha Journal, 2002, p.18-27.
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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.

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Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology
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v.32
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0047-3928
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