Ruth Behar was born on 1956 and is a Cuban-American anthropologist and writer.
14 Facts About Ruth Behar
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Ruth Behar's work includes academic studies, as well as poetry, memoir, and literary fiction.
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Ruth Behar was four when her family immigrated to the US following Fidel Castro's gaining power in the revolution of 1959.
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Ruth Behar studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University, earning her doctorate in 1983.
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Ruth Behar has specialized in studying the lives of women in developing societies.
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Ruth Behar is a professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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Ruth Behar noted, "I knew the stories of the Jews in Cuba, but it was all about looking at them as a community".
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Ruth Behar argues that the ethnographic fieldworker should identify and work though, his or her own emotional involvement with the subject under study.
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Ruth Behar suggested that the ideal of a "scientific," distanced, impersonal mode of presenting materials was incomplete.
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Ruth Behar's grandparents emigrated to Cuba from Russia, Poland and Turkey during the 1920s.
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At the age of nine, Ruth Behar suffered a broken leg from the crash of her family's car.
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In 1985, Ruth Behar was working in Mexico when she befriended an Indian witch working as a street peddler.
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Ruth Behar blamed pent-up rage about her husband and life as the reason for the deaths in infancy of the first six of her 12 children.
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Ruth Behar reflects on her own life and begins to think that her Latina-gringa conflicts result from a feeling of loss after having tried to model herself according to the American Dream, thus losing some sense of her Cuban Jewish family's past in that island nation.