Conversations with Berkeley Faculty: Nancy Scheper-Hughes (12/14/99)

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Humanities

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UC Berkeley

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Post-secondary

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Conversations with History Presents Faculty Research at the University of California, Berkeley

A Conversation with Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Professor of Anthropology
"Studying the Human Condition: Habits of an Anthropologist"

This interview took place on December 14, 1999. Complete transcript is available.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also directs the Doctoral Program in Critical Studies of Medicine, Science, and the Body. Her many publications include Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, which received the Margaret Meade Award, and Death Without Weeping: the Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, which received several awards including the International Pitre Prize and the Wellcome Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. She is currently co-director of a research project on "Money, Markets and Bodies" (funded by the Open Society Institute), which is exploring the global trade in human organs for transplant surgery.

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English

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