Background
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy Marie was born on September 25, 1944 in New York, United States. Daughter of George Louis and Ann (Znojemsky) Scheper.
( When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of lov...)
When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.
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Scheper-Hughes, Nancy Marie was born on September 25, 1944 in New York, United States. Daughter of George Louis and Ann (Znojemsky) Scheper.
Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1977.
Assistant professor Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1977—1979. Associate professor University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1979—1982. Professor University California, Berkeley, California, since 1982.
Postdoctoral fellow human development Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979—1980. Visiting professor, chair department social anthropology University CapeTown, South Africa, 1993—1994. Member Bellagio Task Force on Organ Transplant, 1996—1998, Academy Advisory Panel on Youth Violence, Washington, 2000—2002.
( When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of lov...)
Volunteer United States Peace Corps., Pernambuco, Brazil, 1964—1966. Civil rights worker Southern Rural Research Project, Selma, Alabama, 1967—1968. Co-founder, director Organs Watch.
Member Berkeley Catholic Worker movement, 1980. Member of Society Medical Anthropological (executive board 1982-1984), American Anthropological Association (Margaret Mead award 1980).
Married David Michael Hughes, December 21, 1971. Children: Jennifer, Sarah, Nathanael.