The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your HeartEloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology. She proposes an anthropology that is lived and written in a personal voice. She does so in the hope that it will lead us toward greater depth of understanding and feeling, not only in contemporary anthropology, but in all acts of witnessing. |
Contents
The Vulnerable Observer | 1 |
Death and Memory From Santa Maria del Monte to Miami Beach | 34 |
My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lives across the Border from Me in Detroit | 90 |
The Girl in the Cast | 104 |
Going to Cuba Writing Ethnography of Diaspora Return and Despair | 136 |
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