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The Vulnerable Observer : Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart. / Ruth Behar

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: : Feel Books Pvt. Ltd. | : 4381/4, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002Publication details: Boston : Beacon Press , 1996Description: 210p. : 24cmISBN:
  • 9780807007136
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.0723 BEH
Summary: 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.
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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.

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