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Nov 15, 2022 | ISBN 9780807007136

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Praise

“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

Table Of Contents

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

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