The vulnerable observer
Editorial TENEUES PUBLISHING UK LTD
Mainland Spain
- Publisher TENEUES PUBLISHING UK LTD
- ISBN13 9780807046319
- ISBN10 0807046310
- Type BOOK
- Pages 195
- Published 1995
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
Anthropology. General ThemesThe vulnerable observer
Editorial TENEUES PUBLISHING UK LTD
Mainland Spain
Book details
Award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology—an anthropology that is lived and written in a personal voice.
"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
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.
"Her luminous essays build cultural bridges and challenge conventional ways of doing anthropology."
—Publishers Weekly