Nancy Scheper-Hughes

The global organ trade exploits the desperate and the poor.

I went to the field expecting ethnography, but found a call to activism.

Human rights are meaningless without addressing structural violence.

Children in poverty die not from disease alone, but from abandonment.

Anthropologists have a duty to bear witness to atrocity.

The body politic is as vulnerable as the physical body.

In Brazil's northeast, mourning is a luxury the poor cannot afford.

Transplant medicine hides its dark underbelly in global inequalities.

Ethnography is not neutral; it demands ethical intervention.

Life's meaning is forged in the struggle against injustice.

The silence of the state on child mortality is deafening.

Bodies are not commodities; they are sacred vessels of humanity.

I learned from the mothers of Bom Jesus that resilience is born of sorrow.

Violence permeates the mundane, making the extraordinary ordinary.

Anthropology's power lies in unveiling hidden truths of power.

The organ market thrives on the myth of consent.

In the face of death, culture dictates what we feel and how we grieve.

Activism is the anthropologist's response to ethical dilemmas in the field.

Poverty kills slowly, through indifference.

Global health ignores the social determinants of bodily integrity.