The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
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Eloquently 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.
Author: Ruth Behar
Format: Paperback, 208 pages, 137mm x 203mm, 238 g
Published: 1997, Beacon Press, United States
Genre: Social Studies: General
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Eloquently 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.
The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart