Mark Goodale

Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne. He is the founding Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights.

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Anthropology Rethinking Justice [long_description] In the second and third titles of his trilogy on the Cambodian genocide, Alexander Laban Hinton examines the trials of the Khmer Rouge in an effort to understand and explain genocide in a universal sense. How can a human commit inhuman acts? He finds this paradox can be explained through what he calls “the banality of everyday thought.” But do darker and unexamined realities remain?
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letter Liminality and Human Rights
In response to “Inequality and Human Rights”
[short_description] Periods of liminality are moments in which cultural norms can be questioned, different values adopted, and social structures refashioned. A liminal approach to human rights history is revealing…

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