Study of Anthropological Origins of Human Cultural Rights

In the introduction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “recognition of inherent dignity” of all human members is realized as the basis of freedom, justice, and peace around the world and it has been emphasized on believing in “dignity and value of individual human” by the people of the united nations and also the fact that “human rights” must be supported by law enforcement. However, legislation and enforcement of law and principally the most basic inquiry about humanistic sciences including law have a secondary status in relation to recognition of “human”. Therefore, there is no exceptions to human cultural rights in regard to this principle, too. By posing this question that “what are the anthropological principles of human cultural rights”, and applying a qualitative content analysis with an anthropological approach, the present study is an attempt to evaluate this assumption that “human cultural rights are rooted in human nature and his physique”. The results indicated that studying definition, origin, physique, anatomy and lifestyle of human and his relationship with culture imply that human is a cultural creature and cultural rights have their origin in human nature; accordingly, to support and promote human cultural right, we need to put emphasis on compliance of these rights with their anthropological origin.