A broad and ambitious reexamination of anthropology's potential and obligation to transform human rights theory and practice.

Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne. He is the author of Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford, 2008), editor of Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader (2009), and coeditor of The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local (2007).