Part I Theoretical Foundations, Ch.6 Anthropology and the Grounds of Human Rights

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Access to information — Citizenship — Development, right to — Right to education

This article examines the relation between the history of anthropology and human rights. It explains that anthropology first became connected with human rights in 1947 when the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) asked the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to write an advisory opinion on human rights during the drafting of what would become the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also contends that the history of anthropology�s relationship to human enables a better understanding of how and why human rights developed as they did.