Children without Humanness. Criança-Irân Infanticide Cultural Practice Challenging Human Rights in Guinea-Bissau
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6213933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudia Favarato (0000-0001-8251-650X, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-73 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politikon (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0258-9346 • E-ISSN: 1470-1014 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02589346.2020.1861508 |
| OpenAlex | W3111338358 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article focuses on the discrepancies between the onto-metaphysical foundations of criança-irân ritual infanticide (practised in Guinea Bissau) and the principles underpinning international, legal human rights. Bissau-Guinean cosmological beliefs justify the infanticide, excluding infants from the category of human being.This paper argues that the practice and its underpinning principles constitute a threefold challenge to human rights, as analysed in the three sections constituting the paper. The first part reveals the apparent inconsistency between the primary human rights corpus and given cultural practices, in the framework of the right to culture. The second it takes into account the universalist and the relativist stances in the discernment of individualistic and societal features as benchmark for human rights formulation, implementation and protection. Last, resorting to ethical pluralism, it exposes the dichotomy between the practice and human rights' foundations, emphasising the peculiar ways in which humanness, and hence rights-holder, have hitherto been conceptualised
Cultural relativism · Discernment · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human rights · Individualism · Metaphysics · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Relativism · Sociology · Underpinning · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy
African philosophy
Tradition and Modernity
The Heart of Human Rights
The structure of scientific revolutions
Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa
Religion, the African Concept of the Individual, and Human Rights Discourse
Traditional religion in Guinea Bissau political culture
The Human Factor in Changing Africa
Between Facts and Norms
The Human Factor in Changing Africa
A revitalização do poder tradicional e os regulados manjaco da Guiné-Bissau1
Uma concepção multicultural de direitos humanos
Human Rights Law and the Demonization of Culture (And Anthropology Along the Way)
Human Rights in Africa
Power in Africa
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |