Human rights and sorcery in East Java (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate) |
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| Authors: | Nicholas Herriman |
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| Institution: | The author lectures in anthropology at La Trobe University, Australia. He is the author of The entangled state: A study of sorcerer killings in Indonesia (Yale, 2012). He podcasts for La Trobe as the ‘audible anthropologist’ (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes‐u/the‐audible‐anthropologist/id574638820). Some of his lectures can be found at http://www.youtube.com/anthropologyonline. |
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| Abstract: | Human rights acquires different meanings in different contexts. In this article, I demonstrate how a local interpretation of human rights was linked to an outbreak of ‘sorcerer’ killings. |
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