law and society assignment
Introduction;
Law circulates in social relations and usually the phrase legal culture is used to identify this. ‘The prefix legal characterizes an aspect of the general culture that is associated with law, legal institutions, legal actors and behaviour. Legal culture refers to an aggregate level (macro or group) phenomenon; legal consciousness usually refers to micro level social action, specifically the ways in which individuals interpret and mobilize legal meanings and signs.’
In this assignment I chose the subject of human rights vis-a-vis traditional culture of certain countries. Through slightly varied historical and the rambling analyses and case studies, the terms between gender, culture and rights are examined - 'the culture of rights' and 'the rights of culture'.1 These rights are trying to be imposed on 'local communities' especially those rights being deemed as 'universal' or 'human'. In contrast to these rights are 'cultures seen in a way as fundamentally local secured by the people, places and time. Traditional culture 2 is being attacked as the obstacle of human rights; the barrier to human progress and the flourishing of human beings. A contrary version of this is seen in anthropolgists that seem to be uninterested in these human rights. They argue that these rights violate the anthropological conciseness that defends the rights of collectivities and the indigenous people.3
The United Nations, the Western states, international nongovernmental organization (INGO's), and the senior Western academics are among the main author's of the human rights discourse. They constructed a three dimensional prism. '...This rendering of the human rights corpus and its discourse is unidirectional and predictable, a black and white construction that pits good against evil.' The Savages-Victim-Saviour (SVS), constructed the three dimensional prism. The first dimension of the prism portraits a savage and brings out images of the uncivilised. - '...The
Law circulates in social relations and usually the phrase legal culture is used to identify this. ‘The prefix legal characterizes an aspect of the general culture that is associated with law, legal institutions, legal actors and behaviour. Legal culture refers to an aggregate level (macro or group) phenomenon; legal consciousness usually refers to micro level social action, specifically the ways in which individuals interpret and mobilize legal meanings and signs.’
In this assignment I chose the subject of human rights vis-a-vis traditional culture of certain countries. Through slightly varied historical and the rambling analyses and case studies, the terms between gender, culture and rights are examined - 'the culture of rights' and 'the rights of culture'.1 These rights are trying to be imposed on 'local communities' especially those rights being deemed as 'universal' or 'human'. In contrast to these rights are 'cultures seen in a way as fundamentally local secured by the people, places and time. Traditional culture 2 is being attacked as the obstacle of human rights; the barrier to human progress and the flourishing of human beings. A contrary version of this is seen in anthropolgists that seem to be uninterested in these human rights. They argue that these rights violate the anthropological conciseness that defends the rights of collectivities and the indigenous people.3
The United Nations, the Western states, international nongovernmental organization (INGO's), and the senior Western academics are among the main author's of the human rights discourse. They constructed a three dimensional prism. '...This rendering of the human rights corpus and its discourse is unidirectional and predictable, a black and white construction that pits good against evil.' The Savages-Victim-Saviour (SVS), constructed the three dimensional prism. The first dimension of the prism portraits a savage and brings out images of the uncivilised. - '...The