CHAPTER 1
The Vulnerable Observer
CHAPTER 2
Death and Memory: From Santa María del Monte to Miami Beach
CHAPTER 3
My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lives across the Border from Me in
Detroit
CHAPTER 4
The Girl in the Cast
CHAPTER 5
Going to Cuba: Writing Ethnography of Diaspora, Return, and
Despair
CHAPTER 6
Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
EPILOGUE
The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Ruth Behar-ethnographer, novelist, poet, and filmmaker-is the James W. Fernandez Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. The recipient of two Fulbright Awards, a MacArthur "Genius Grant," and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, she was named a "Great Immigrant" by the Carnegie Corporation and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Behar is the author of several works of ethnography, including Translated Woman- Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story and Traveling Heavy- A Memoir in Between Journeys, and the coming-of-age novels Lucky Broken Girl and Letters from Cuba. Born in Havana, she grew up in New York and has also lived in Spain and Mexico. Today she lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
“As ‘a woman of the border’ . . . [Behar] infuses her vision with
insight, candor and compassion.”
—Diane Cole, The New York Times Book Review
“Behar has convinced me that ethnographic empathy will produce an
anthropology that has greater meaning than the distanced and
detached academic anthropology of the past.”
—Barbara Fisher, The Boston Globe
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