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Nancy Scheper-Hughes
American anthropologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1944 · age 82
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is an American anthropologist. She is the Chancellor's Professor Emerita of Anthropology and the director and co-founder of the PhD program in Critical Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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A typical day, 30 days to 21 June 2026
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She is known for her writing on the anthropology of the body, hunger, illness, medicine, motherhood, psychiatry, psychosis, social suffering, violence and genocide, death squads, and human trafficking.
Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1944 · age 82
