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Cultural Rights and Internal Minorities: Of Pueblos and Protestants
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2003
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This article considers the question: should rights extended to cultural communities to help them preserve themselves include the right to discipline dissident members who violate cultural norms? The case of the Pueblo Protestants is employed to consider two important defences of cultural rights (revisionist liberal and cultural communitarian) that offer conflicting answers. Both are found unsatisfactory because of their implicit reliance on "cultural monism" (that is, the assumption that individuals identify with only one cultural community). An approach to defining cultural rights is then outlined that avoids this assumption and its application is illustrated with respect to the Pueblo case.
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- Research Article
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- Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2003 , pp. 107 - 127
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- © The Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique
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