Counting the Dead by Winifred Tate
Drawing from the life stories of high-profile activists, interviews with military officials, and research at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, this work underscores the importance of analyzing and understanding human rights discourses, methodologies, and institutions within the context of broader cultural and political debates.-
Pathologies of Power
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The Land of Open Graves
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
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Reimagining Global Health
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Righteous Dopefiend
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To Repair the World
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Illegality, Inc.
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Shadows of War
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Why Did They Kill?
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When Bodies Remember
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Chechnya
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Partner to the Poor
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Archaeology as Political Action
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Annihilating Difference
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My Name Is Jody Williams
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The United States of War
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Leave If You Can
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Birthing the Nation
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Paradise in Ashes
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Exit Wounds
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Total Confinement
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Global Outlaws
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Driving after Class
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Blind Spot
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Dawn Rose on a Dead Body
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Call the Mothers
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Life in Traffic
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Democratic Insecurities
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Nuclear Ghost
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Dispossessed
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Deported to Death
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Returned
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They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields
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The Spectacular Favela
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Living with Difference
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Jornalero
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Making Global MBAs
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Fighting to Breathe
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The Spirit Ambulance
"Contributes significantly to our understanding of how activist institutional culture and identity evolves in a context where traditional labor and religious activists increasingly engage with and become more deeply enmeshed in the larger global activist community" -- Stephen Ropp Hispanic American Historical Review (Hahr) "A fascinating study of how and why the idea of human rights has gained such currency in Colombian society." -- William Aviles Latin American Perspectives: A Journal On Capitalism & Socialism
Winifred Tate is currently a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studes at Brown University and will become an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Colby College in September 2008.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520252837 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520252837 |
| Title | Counting the Dead |
| Author | Winifred Tate |
| Series | California Series In Public Anthropology |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2007-10-09 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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