| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 195 pages) |
| Contents |
The vulnerable observer -- Death and memory: from Santa María del Monte to Miami Beach -- My Mexican friend Marta who lives across the border from me in Detroit -- The girl in the cast -- Going to Cuba: writing ethnography of diaspora, return, and despair -- Anthropology that breaks your heart |
| Summary |
In classical anthropology, subjects of study are seen as vulnerable while their observers are instructed to remain detached and objective. Yet with the emergence during the last decade of a group of anthropologists with recognizable connections to the cultures in which they work, the lines between participant and observer, insider and outsider are no longer so easily drawn. In The Vulnerable Observer, the award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a new theory and practice for this humanistic anthropology. No longer looking over others' shoulders, she becomes one of the subjects of study as she reflects upon the observer as well as the observed. Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, Ruth Behar reflects on fieldwork in Spain, Cuba, and the United States through her personal stories of loss as a young Cuban Jewish immigrant. Beginning with a poignant essay exploring the refuge she found in her fieldwork as her grandfather died, she proposes an anthropology that is lived and written in a personal voice in the hope that it will lead us toward greater depth of understanding and feeling for those about whom we write |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-191) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| SUBJECT |
Behar, Ruth 1956- gnd |
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Participant observation -- Psychological aspects
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Anthropologists -- Attitudes
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Anthropologists -- Psychology
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Observation (Scientific method)
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Anthropology.
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Ethnology.
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Observation
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Anthropology
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Anthropology, Cultural
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Ethnology
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anthropology.
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ethnology.
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social anthropology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Observation (Scientific method)
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Ethnology
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Anthropology
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Anthropologists -- Attitudes
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Anthropologists -- Psychology
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Participant observation -- Psychological aspects
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Ethnologie
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Methode
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Teilnehmende Beobachtung
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Reflexivität
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Participerend onderzoek.
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Culturele antropologie.
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American literature -- Cuban American authors.
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Cuban Americans -- Literary collections.
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Cubans -- United States -- Literary collections.
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Observation participante -- Aspect psychologique.
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Anthropologues -- Psychologie.
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United States -- Relations -- Cuba -- Literary collections.
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Cuba -- Relations -- United States -- Literary collections.
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United States -- Relations -- Cuba.
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Cuba -- Relations -- United States.
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Cuba -- Civilization.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0807046485 |
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9780807046487 |
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