Nancy Scheper‐hughe
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3586403 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nancy Scheper‐hughe |
| NOMBRES | Nancy |
| APELLIDO | Scheper‐hughe |
| FIRMA | HUGHE N S |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2405 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Paul Rabinow (1944-2021)
In this narrative, the author reminisces over her collaboration on AIDS-HIV initiatives with recently deceased Paul Rabinow
Epidemics and Containment
The Cuban response to a new and little understood disease, HIV/AIDS, was swift. A ban on imported blood was followed by mass testing of HIV antibodies, beginning with Cubans who had travelled abroad. In 1986, a sanatorium - 'Los Cocos' - was opened to treat Cuban soldiers who had returned with AIDS from Angola. Soon after, Cubans who had never left the country began testing HIV positive, most of whom were gay and bisexual. 'Los Cocos' was neither…
A Finger in the Wound
Pain is a deeply subjective experience that includes sensory, emotional, social, historical, and cultural components. The presence of suffering in the idiom of pain exposes the gap between individual bodies that refuse to suffer quietly and the violence of indifferent social, economic, and political orders. In this essay I describe the existential suffering of Brazilian sugarcane cutters who transform the unbearable shame of hunger into a more ac…
How to talk (and not to talk) about school shootings
In this guest editorial, the author addresses the latest school shootings at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. This event is weighed up against reports written by prominent academics, including anthropologists, during previous school shootings
We are not such things
2017). We are not such things: the murder of a young American, a South African township, and the search for truth and reconciliation. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 224-237
Another country? Racial hatred in the time of Trump
The contentious confirmation hearings of Trump's pick for US Attorney General, Senator Jeff Sessions, barely opened the can of worms regarding Sessions' indifference toward allegations of summary executions of poor black victims in southwest Alabama during his term of office as federal attorney for Southern Alabama. During his two years Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama (1975) and his twelve years as US Attorney for the s…
Two Cents for Welfare (Part II)
Two Cents for Welfare (Part I)
James X
In this narrative, the author reflects on the circumstances surrounding a rape attempt on her during the civil rights struggle in 1968
Introduction
In this introduction to part 4 of the Common Knowledge symposium "Peace by Other Means," the journal's editor assesses the argument made by Peace, the spokesperson of Erasmus in his Querela Pacis (1521), that the desire to impute and avenge wrongs against oneself is insatiable and at the root of both individual and social enmities. He notes that, in a symposium about how to resolve and prevent enmity, most contributions have to date expressed cav…
The Other Who Is Also Oneself
The Ethics of Engaged Ethnography
Making anthropology public
Public Anthropology entails diverse practices. One is 'writing' for the public by making our work more accessible and accountable. A less conventional way of getting anthropological research findings and interpretations to broader publics is through active collaboration with journalists and the media. To make anthropology public is to invite criticism and to face 'erasures' of ownership of our findings once they are shared with journalists. Even …
A Talent for Life
This article explores the limitations of the dominant psychological trauma model. Drawing on the experiences and the aftermaths of chronic 'states of emergency ' among shantytown families in rural Northeast Brazil, among hunted street kids in urban Brazil, and among revolutionaries and warriors of different political stripes following the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, I identify several features of human resilience, the sources of stre…
Postcard From Brazil
Postcard From Brazil
Alistair Cooke's bones
Katrina
Scarce Goods
Scarce Goods: Justice, Fairness, and Organ Transplantation. Thomas Koch. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. 250 pp.The Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. Margaret Lock Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 429 pp
Anatomy of a quilt
Ishi's brain, Ishi's ashes
On Organ Theft Narratives
The Global Traffic in Human Organs
Inspired by Sweetness and Power, in which Sidney Mintz traces the colonial and mercantilist routes of enslaving tastes and artificial needs, this paper maps a late-20th-century global trade in bodies, body parts, desires, and invented scarcities. Organ transplant takes place today in a transnational space with surgeons, patients, organ donors, recipients, brokers, and intermediaries-some with criminal connections-following new paths of capital an…
Making a Positive Difference
Death, Gender, and Ethnicity
Death, Gender, and Ethnicity. David Field. Jenny Hockey. and Neil Small. eds. New York: Routledge, 1997.230 pp
The Mindful Body
Conceptions of the body are central not only to substantive work in medical anthropology, but also to the philosophical underpinnings of the entire discipline of anthropology, where Western assumptions about the mind and body, the individual and society, affect both theoretical viewpoints and research paradigms. These same conceptions also influence ways in which health care is planned and delivered in Western societies. In this article we advoca…
The Primacy of the Ethical
The Global Traffic in Human Organs
Inspired by Sweetness and Power, in which Sidney Mintz traces the colonial and mercantilist routes of enslaving tastes and artificial needs, this paper maps a late-20th-century global trade in bodies, body parts, desires, and invented scarcities. Organ transplant takes place today in a transnational space with surgeons, patients, organ donors, recipients, brokers, and intermediaries-some with criminal connections-following new paths of capital an…
Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking
Three propositions for a critically applied medical anthropology
Small wars and invisible genocides
Theft of Life
Speaking "Truth" to Illness1
A Talent for Life
This article explores the limitations of the dominant psychological trauma model. Drawing on the experiences and the aftermaths of chronic 'states of emergency ' among shantytown families in rural Northeast Brazil, among hunted street kids in urban Brazil, and among revolutionaries and warriors of different political stripes following the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, I identify several features of human resilience, the sources of stre…
Infant mortality and infant care
An essay
Making anthropology public
Public Anthropology entails diverse practices. One is 'writing' for the public by making our work more accessible and accountable. A less conventional way of getting anthropological research findings and interpretations to broader publics is through active collaboration with journalists and the media. To make anthropology public is to invite criticism and to face 'erasures' of ownership of our findings once they are shared with journalists. Even …
Death, Gender, and Ethnicity
Death, Gender, and Ethnicity. David Field. Jenny Hockey. and Neil Small. eds. New York: Routledge, 1997.230 pp
Breaking the circuit of social control
Virgin Territory
On the Call for a Militant Anthropology
Ishi's brain, Ishi's ashes
The Last White Christmas
In the last holiday season before free elections in South Africa, a massacre takes place in a Cape Town pub frequented by blacks and whites. Visiting the morgue while survivors arrive to identify the dead, and later participating in a therapeutic postmassacre trauma group, the author ponders the limits of ethnographic field inquiry
Mental? in ?southie
Theft of life
Katrina
Speaking "Truth" to Illness
From anxiety to analysis
1983). From anxiety to analysis: Rethinking Irish sexuality and sex roles. Women's Studies: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 147-160
The Ethics of Engaged Ethnography
Alistair Cooke's bones
Time Criticized for Yanomamo Characterization
Part three
Schizophrenia is a major health-care problem in the "Isle of Saints and Scholars." This paper analyzes the particularly high vulnerability of the rural Irish to psychiatric hospitalization within the framework of "labeling theory"-that is, through an examination of community definitions of normal and abnormal behavior, variations in diagnostic preference and usage, and cultural and historical attitudes toward treatment and hospitalization in the …
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, UPDATED AND EXPANDED When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic--a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of Ballybran, a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. In this richly detailed and sympathetic book, Nancy Scheper-Hughes explores the symptoms of the community's decline: emigration, malaise, unwanted celibacy, damaging …
"Anthropologists and the "Crazies
Recent Works in Cultural Psychiatry: Making it Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community. Sue E. Estroff.Recent Works in Cultural Psychiatry: The Family Shadow: Sources of Suicide and Schizophrenia. David Reynolds and Norman Farberow.Recent Works in Cultural Psychiatry: Mental Patients in Town Life: Geel-Europe's First Therapeutic Community. Eugeen Roosens.Recent Works in Cultural Psychiatry: Cultural Conceptions of Me…
From anxiety to analysis
1983). From anxiety to analysis: Rethinking Irish sexuality and sex roles. Women's Studies: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 147-160
Making it Crazy
Benevolent Anarchy
Infant mortality and infant care
Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking
Speaking "Truth" to Illness
Breaking the circuit of social control
Child abuse and neglect
Speaking "Truth" to Illness1
Mental? in ?southie
The Mindful Body
Conceptions of the body are central not only to substantive work in medical anthropology, but also to the philosophical underpinnings of the entire discipline of anthropology, where Western assumptions about the mind and body, the individual and society, affect both theoretical viewpoints and research paradigms. These same conceptions also influence ways in which health care is planned and delivered in Western societies. In this article we advoca…
The Best of Two Worlds, the Worst of Two Worlds
Despite its title this article does not pretend to be or to offer a study in comparative ethnography, since my expertise in the cultures to be discussed is limited and uneven. I know somewhat more about the rural Irish of the Dingle Peninsula, among whom I lived during 1974-75, than I do about the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, among whom I spent the greater part of the summer in 1979 and again in 1985. Nor do these remarks have any pretense to so…
Bodies under Siege
Child Survival
Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Child Survival.- I: Population, Fertility, and Child Survival.- Birth Planning in Rural China: A Cultural Account.- Fertility Change, Child Survival, and Child Development: Observations on a Rural Kenyan Community.- Food Taboos and Child Survival: A Case Study from the Coral Sea.- II: Infanticide: Culturally Sanctioned Child Abuse.- Female Infanticide and Child Neglect in Rural North India.- Infanticide Amon…
Three propositions for a critically applied medical anthropology
Theft of life
Virgin Territory
Aids, Public Health and Human Rights in Cuba
Aids Panel
An essay
The Last White Christmas
In the last holiday season before free elections in South Africa, a massacre takes place in a Cape Town pub frequented by blacks and whites. Visiting the morgue while survivors arrive to identify the dead, and later participating in a therapeutic postmassacre trauma group, the author ponders the limits of ethnographic field inquiry
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