Ruth Behar
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Jewish Cuban American writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ruth Behar is a Cuban-American anthropologist and writer. Her work includes academic studies, as well as poetry, memoir, and literary fiction. As an anthropologist, she has argued for the open adoption and acknowledgement of the subjective nature of research and participant-observers. She is a recipient of the Belpré Medal.
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Published Works
- The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (1996) (1232)
- Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story (1994) (647)
- Women Writing Culture (1995) (343)
- Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (2001) (265)
- Ethnography and the Book that was Lost (2003) (115)
- Rage and Redemption: Reading the Life Story of a Mexican Marketing Woman (1990) (89)
- sex and sin, witchcraft and the devil in late‐colonial Mexico (1987) (66)
- Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba (1996) (43)
- Santa Maria del Monte: The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village (1991) (37)
- Ethnography in a Time of Blurred Genres (2007) (35)
- An Island Called Home (2007) (35)
- ETHNOGRAPHY: Cherishing Our Second-Fiddle Genre (1999) (35)
- Social Inequality in a Portuguese Hamlet: Land, Late Marriage, and Bastardy, 1870-1978. (1987) (30)
- Believing in Anthropology as Literature (2009) (27)
- Diasporic Generations: Memory, Politics, and Nation among Cubans in Spain (2014) (27)
- Death and Memory: From Santa María del Monte to Miami Beach (1991) (25)
- Caries, diet, dental knowledge and socioeconomic variables in a population of 15-year-old Israeli schoolchildren. (1984) (25)
- Revolutions of the Heart (1995) (21)
- The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village: (Published in cloth as Santa Maria del Monte) (1991) (20)
- The presence of the past in a Spanish village : Santa María del Monte (1991) (19)
- The Couple in the Cage: A Guatinaui Odyssey (1995) (18)
- Introduction: Women writing culture: another telling of the story of American anthropology (1993) (18)
- Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A Reader (2004) (16)
- Introduction: Papelitos Guardados: Theorizing Latinidades Through Testimonio (2001) (16)
- The portable island : Cubans at home in the world (2008) (15)
- ETHNOGRAPHY (1999) (11)
- The Visions of a Guachichil Witch in 1599: A Window on the Subjugation of (1987) (11)
- In the House of Spirits (1995) (10)
- Sexual Witchcraft, Colonialism, and Women's Powers: Views from the Mexican Inquisition (2019) (10)
- Folklore and the Search for Home (American Folklore Society Presidential Invited Plenary Address, October 2008) (2009) (9)
- Property, Progeny, and Emotion: Family History in a Leonese Village (1988) (8)
- Anthropology: Ethnography and the Book That Was Lost (2008) (8)
- Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys (2013) (8)
- Mediajourneys: Looking at People, Looking for People (2012) (7)
- Yellow marigolds for Ochun: An experiment in feminist ethnographic fiction (2001) (7)
- Expanding the Boundaries of Anthropology: The Cultural Criticism of Gloria Anzaldúa and Marlon Riggs (1993) (7)
- The Portable Island (2008) (6)
- Telling to Live (2017) (6)
- Gendered Fields: Women, Men and Ethnography. Diane Bell, Pat Caplan, and Wazir Jahan Karim, eds (1996) (5)
- Traveling Heavy (2020) (5)
- THE WEB OF USE-RIGHTS: FORMS AND CONCEPTIONS OF COMMUNAL PROPERTY AMONG LEONESE LABRADORES' (1984) (4)
- Journeys of the Heart (1993) (4)
- While Waiting for the Ferry to Cuba afterthoughts about adio kerida (2002) (4)
- Fuzzy Borders and the Fifth Moment. methodological issues (1997) (3)
- The Key to the House (2013) (3)
- Juban América@@@Juban America (1995) (3)
- Honeymoon Nightgowns That A Black Woman Saved for a White Woman: A Perilous Journey into the Cuban Historical Imagination (2000) (3)
- The presence of the past : a historical ethnography of a Leonese village (1983) (3)
- Introduction (1993) (2)
- After the Bridges (2008) (2)
- My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lost Her Womb on This Side of the Border (1993) (2)
- North of the Border (1993) (1)
- The Day I Cried at Starbucks on Lincoln Road (2013) (1)
- Learning English with Shotaro (2013) (1)
- The Struggle for the Church: (2021) (1)
- The Death of the Angel: Reflections on the Relationship between Enlightenment and Enchantment in the Twenty-first Century (2011) (1)
- While waiting for the ferry to Cuba (2005) (1)
- Running Away from Home to Run toward Home (2020) (1)
- Anthropology and the Search for Home: Reflections of an Immigrant Ethnographer (2019) (1)
- Found in Translation (1993) (1)
- Anthropology's Epiphanies: Some Things I Learned from James Fernandez (2000) (1)
- Singing the Blue Cross blues. (1993) (1)
- Translations of the Self: Moving between Objects, Memories, and Words: A Dialogue with Ruth Behar (2020) (1)
- Dulce Maria Loynaz: A Woman Who No Longer Exists (1997) (1)
- Temporary Latina (2020) (1)
- Introduction: Looking Back and Forward (2018) (1)
- 9. The Concejo as a Moral Presence (1991) (0)
- Observing the Observers (1998) (0)
- Map of Cuba (showing places visited) (2020) (0)
- Jewish-Cuban Poems: (2019) (0)
- 1. Looking for Henry (2020) (0)
- Cuba's Jews: People of a Solitary Star (2007) (0)
- A Sephardi Air (2013) (0)
- What Are Anthropologists Reading, Watching, and Listening To This Summer? (2019) (0)
- 8. How to Pack Your Suitcase (2020) (0)
- A Gift from the Women of Mexquitic (2013) (0)
- The Woman Who Wanted Bridges (2008) (0)
- 8. The Concejo as a Polity (1991) (0)
- A Degree in Hard Work (2013) (0)
- 19. Becoming Ruth Berezniak (2020) (0)
- Bridges to Cuba and Latina/Latino Studies (2018) (0)
- 2018 Belpre Award Acceptance Speeches (2015) (0)
- Why My Ears Aren’t Pierced (2001) (0)
- Historicizing Latinos/as in the US (part 2), 11:15AM-1:00PM; Latino/a Fascinations: Transcultural Dialogues Across the Americas, 2:00PM-4:00PM (2004) (0)
- Chronicle of a Return to Cuba in a Time of Cholera (2019) (0)
- Mary, Michael and Lucifer: Folk Catholicism in Centra) Mexico. JOHN M. INGHAM (1987) (0)
- 4. The Kosher Butcher Shop (2020) (0)
- 9. Enrique Bender’s Blue-Green Eyes Remind Me of My Grandfather (2020) (0)
- A Woman's Body is Her Country (1998) (0)
- 2. The Village House (1991) (0)
- Cubana: Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women (1998) (0)
- About the Author and Photographer (2018) (0)
- 32. Salvador’s Three Wives (2020) (0)
- brian juan o'neill. Social Inequality in a Portuguese Hamlet: Land, Late Marriage, and Bastardy, 1870–1978. (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, number 63.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1987. Pp. xix, 431. $49.50 (1990) (0)
- Fastening the Bonds of Womanhood (1996) (0)
- 13. The Common Woods (1991) (0)
- List of Photographs (2020) (0)
- From Real Life to the Magic of Fiction (2020) (0)
- Handmade in Cuba: Rolando Estévez and the Beautiful Books of Ediciones Vigía (2020) (0)
- Unexpected Happiness in Poland (2013) (0)
- from Forty Nameless Poems (1997) (0)
- The last time tere danced a rumba (2013) (0)
- Appendix B. Population and Economy (1991) (0)
- 3. An Archaeology of the House (1991) (0)
- READ MORE, WRITE LESS (2020) (0)
- Women Writing Culture@@@Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests and Power (1996) (0)
- The first World Summit of Behars (2006) (0)
- Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World (2008) (0)
- An Old Little Girl (2013) (0)
- What will remain...? Some responses from autoethnography and young people’s fiction (2022) (0)
- 14. The State and the Commons (1991) (0)
- Principal Archival Sources (1991) (0)
- Contributors (2008) (0)
- 12. The Common Lands (1991) (0)
- For the Love of Beautiful Books: (2020) (0)
- 15. The Three Things José Martí Said All Real Men Must Do (2020) (0)
- 5. The Shirt That Holds Sadness (2020) (0)
- Writing Ethnographic Memoir (2014) (0)
- 18. Mr. Fisher’s Twice-Yearly Gifts (2020) (0)
- Broken Streets of My City (2012) (0)
- How This Book Came to Be a Photojourney (2020) (0)
- 14. The Whispering Writer (2020) (0)
- Weighs, Measures, and Monetary Units (1991) (0)
- The Girl In The Blue School Uniform (2022) (0)
- 12. Danayda Levy’s School Report (2020) (0)
- Losing Cuba Again (2009) (0)
- Latino/a Fascinations: Transcultural Dialogues Across the Americas (part 2), 2:00-4:00PM (2004) (0)
- 28. The Moses of Santa Clara (2020) (0)
- 5. Parents and Children (1991) (0)
- Cristy Always Prays for My Safe Return (2013) (0)
- Latino/a Fascinations: Transcultural Dialogues Across the Americas (part 3), 2:00-4:00PM; Report from the Field, 4:00-6:00PM (2004) (0)
- 1 DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY ON ACADEMIC INTEGRITY * The Anthropology (0)
- 29. A Conversation Next to El Mamey (2020) (0)
- 15. The Presence of the Past (1991) (0)
- 31. The Covenant of Abraham (2020) (0)
- How Does a Woman Find Her Voice and Not Lose Her in Academia? (2021) (0)
- 22. When I See You Again There Will Be No Pain or Forgetting (2020) (0)
- 1. A Portrait of a Landscape and of a People (1991) (0)
- 4. The Evil Eye of the Anthropologist (2011) (0)
- Sand from Varadero Beach (2001) (0)
- 11. The Common Herds (1991) (0)
- Response to editorial by Dr. Earle. (1993) (0)
- 7. In the Realm of Lost Things (2020) (0)
- Critical Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal (2010) (0)
- A Tango for Gabriel (2013) (0)
- Of Places Left Behind: An Anthropologist Explores Jewish Cuban Diasporas (2002) (0)
- Appendix C. Distribution of Responses to the Ateneo Questionnaire of 1901-1902 in the Province of Leon (1991) (0)
- 7. The Concejo as an Assembly (1991) (0)
- 25. Seven Jewish Weddings in Camagüey (2020) (0)
- Intersecting Destinies of an Anthropologist and His Interlocutor (2015) (0)
- Forgive Yourself, Dear Writer (2013) (0)
- 20. After Everyone Has Left (2020) (0)
- 35. The Mizrahi Clan in Guantánamo (2020) (0)
- "Lucky Broken Girl": Book Presentation by Author Ruth Behar | Comments by Richard Blanco (2017) (0)
- 3. A Tour of Havana’s Synagogues (2020) (0)
- 34. The Last Jew of Palma Soriano (2020) (0)
- Culture and Change: Bridges to Cuba (1995) (0)
- From Those Who Don’t Forget You (2013) (0)
- 10. The Web of Use-Rights (1991) (0)
- 2. A Kaddish for the Jews Who Rest in Jewish Cemeteries in Cuba and for Raquel’s Mother Who Does Not (2020) (0)
- 4. The Idiom of Equal Inheritance (1991) (0)
- CELEBRATION OF ACTIVIST ANTHROPOLOGY BEYOND BORDERS: GINA ATHENA ULYSSE'S PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND WHY HAITI NEEDS NEW NARRATIVES (2015) (0)
- My Mexican friend marta who lives across the border from me in detroit (2016) (0)
- The Freedom to Travel Anywhere in the World (2013) (0)
- Response: Sad Movies Make Me Cry (2020) (0)
- Goodbye, My Havana: The Life and Times of a Gringa in Revolutionary Cuba by Anna Veltfort (review) (2022) (0)
- Appendix A. Two Life Histories from Santa Maria (1991) (0)
- 6. Setting Up House (1991) (0)
- Power and Persuasion: Fiestas and Social Control in Rural Mexico. STANLEY BRANDES (1990) (0)
- 26. Che Waits for a New Frame (2020) (0)
- 13. May Day with a Jewish Communist (2020) (0)
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