Abstract The writer relates that he/she was daunted by the prospect of reading and reviewing this 389-page book of cultural anthropology. The writer anticipated a long, dry dissertation on some obscure group of people. However, the writer discusses how he/she quickly came across these words written by Scheper-Hughes, describing her family as "a young and somewhat brash anthropologist and her offbeat, counter-cultural family: shaggy-haired, gentle 'hippie' husband and their three rambunctious babies and toddlers."
