Description
Product ID: | 9780812245943 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights |
Title: | Cultural Heritage in Transit |
Subtitle: | Intangible Rights as Human Rights |
Authors: | Author: Deborah Kapchan |
Page Count: | 248 |
Subjects: | Human rights, civil rights, Human rights |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Analyzing "heritage events"-from Roma wedding music to Trinidadian wining, Moroccan verbal art, and neopagan rituals-Cultural Heritage in Transit tracks the effects of the heritage industry, focusing on cultural rights and human rights writ large. Are human rights universal? The immediate response is "yes, of course." However, that simple affirmation assumes agreement about definitions of the "human" as well as what a human is entitled to under law, bringing us quickly to concepts such as freedom, property, and the inalienability of both. The assumption that we all mean the same things by these terms carries much political import, especially given that different communities (national, ethnic, religious, gendered) enact some of the most basic categories of human experience (self, home, freedom, sovereignty) differently. But whereas legal definitions often seek to eliminate ambiguity in order to define and protect the rights of humanity, ambiguity is in fact inherently human, especially in performances of heritage where the rights to sense, to imagine, and to claim cultural identities that resist circumscription are at play. |
Imprint Name: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Publisher Name: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2014-05-21 |