Ruth Behar

Ruth Behar ( born 1956 in Havana, Cuba ) is a Cuban- American anthropologist, poet and writer. She teaches at the University of Michigan.

Life

With four years left Behar Cuba and emigrated to the United States. After graduating as a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in 1977, she studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University. Her dissertation, which she wrote in 1983 about her fieldwork in northern Spain, was the basis of her first book.

Her second book Translated Woman of 1993 was based on her ten years of research in a small rural town in Mexico.

Since 1991, their activity has focused on her native Cuba. From their research on the Jewish community in Cuba, the film Adio kerida in which her ​​son Gabriel Frye - Behar participated as a cameraman was created in 2002. The Jewish Cuba is also the subject of her latest book on Iceland Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba (2007).

Awards

Writings

  • The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village: Santa María del Monte, 1986
  • Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza 's Story, 1993; second edition, Beacon Press, 2003 ISBN 9780807046470
  • Bridges to Cuba / Puentes a Cuba, editor, University of Michigan Press, 1995, ISBN 9780472066117
  • Women Writing Culture editor Ruth Behar, Deborah A. Gordon, University of California Press, 1995, ISBN 9780520202085
  • The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart, Beacon Press, 1996, ISBN 9780807046319
  • At Iceland Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, Rutgers University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780813541891
  • The Portable Iceland: Cubans at Home in the World, editor Ruth Behar, Lucía M. Suárez, Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 9780230604773

Filmography

  • Adio kerida ( Goodbye Dear Love ): A Cuban - American Woman 's Search for Sephardic Memories ( 2002)
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