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The Vulnerable Observer

The Vulnerable Observer Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart

Hardback (08 Jan 1997)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Behar (anthropology, U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor) challenges the idea of objectivity and impersonality in research, blending ethnography with memoir in an account of her own fieldwork in Spain, Cuba, and the US, placed together with personal stories of life as a young Cuban Jewish immigrant. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780807046302
Publisher: Beacon Press
Imprint: Beacon Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 301.0723
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 195
Weight: 386g
Height: 203mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 22mm