Nancy Scheper-Hughes

TL;DR: In this paper, the deconstruction of received concepts about the body is discussed and three perspectives from which the body may be viewed: (1) as phenomenally experienced individual body-self; (2) as a social body, a natural symbol for thinking about relationships among nature, society, and culture; and (3) as body politic, an artifact of social and political control.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a political economy of the emotions of the human emotions in a sugar house and a carnaval dance against death in Brazil, which is a form of resistance to death.

TL;DR: Scheper-Hughes as mentioned in this paper argued that cultural relativism is no longer appropriate to the world in which we live, and anthropology, if it is to be worth anything at all, must be ethically grounded.

TL;DR: A late‐20th‐century global trade in bodies, body parts, desires, and invented scarcities is mapped, inspired by Sweetness and Power, which traces the colonial and mercantilist routes of enslaving tastes and artificial needs.

TL;DR: An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford as discussed by the authors ) is an alternative anthropology approach to the treatment of the disadvantaged in the US. But it is not an alternative to our approach.