In classical anthropology, subjects of study are seen as vulnerable while their observers are instructed to remain detached and objective. Yet with the emergence during the last decade of a group of anthropologists with recognizable connections to the cultures in which they work, the lines between participant and observer, insider and outsider are no longer so easily drawn. In The Vulnerable Observer, the award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a new theory and practice for this humanistic anthropology. No longer looking over others' shoulders, she becomes one of the subjects of study as she reflects upon the observer as well as the observed. Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, Ruth Behar reflects on fieldwork in Spain, Cuba, and the United States through her personal stories of loss as a young Cuban Jewish immigrant. Beginning with a poignant essay exploring the refuge she found in her fieldwork as her grandfather died, she proposes an anthropology that is lived and written in a personal voice in the hope that it will lead us toward greater depth of understanding and feeling for those about whom we write

If a nineteenth century lady had neither a husband to support her nor money of her own, almost her only recourse was to live in someone else's household and educate their children - in particula- r, their daughters. Marooned within the confines of other people's lives, neither servants nor family members, governesses occupied an uncomfortable social limbo. And being poor and insignificant, their papers were mostly lost. But a few journals and letters have come down to us, giving a vivid record of what it was to be a lone professional woman at a time when such a creature officially did not exist. Features the Brontes and Anna Leonowens, whose memoirs inspired The King and I.

Contents: Introduction --The sword --Not a soap opera --Kfar kama --Preserving Circassian heritage --Adyghe, a language in crisis --Preserving the khabzeh --Temptations --"Search the soul" --A stop sign in the desert --Betrothal --No intermarriages --Wedding night --Longing for the old country --Zakkariya Napso --An unexpected rival : Islam --From Binyamina to Mecca --Epilogue.חדשים יולי 2016

A portrait of the development of the author's philosophy includes philosophical discussions with intellectuals such as Paul Tillich, Erich Fromm, Albert Einstein, and Hannah Arendt

Seeks a way in which all people can think of themselves as a single world society on the basis of a single moral system, while retaining each culture's individuality

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