Ruth Behar

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Ruth Behar (born 1962) is an American anthropologist, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of Michigan. She is a noted feminist, and her personal life experiences as a Jewish Cuban-American woman are frequently an important part of her writing. Her controversial book The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart examines the role that the personal can play in ethnographic writing.

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Published works

Books

  • The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village: Santa María del Monte (1986)
  • Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story (1993)
  • Women Writing Anthropology (co-editor) (1995)
  • The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (1996)

Film

  • Adio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love): A Cuban-American Woman's Search for Sephardic Memories (2002)

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