Download or read book The Vulnerable Observer written by Ruth Behar and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology. She proposes an anthropology that is lived and written in a personal voice. She does so in the hope that it will lead us toward greater depth of understanding and feeling, not only in contemporary anthropology, but in all acts of witnessing.