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- ISBN-13: 978-0807046487
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A book that breaks myths,
By Sergio Augusto Freire de Souza (Manaus, Amazonas Brazil) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (Paperback)
This book brings to life the fact that it is not possible to separate science from discourse. It shows through its essays that what sees the fact is not the impartial researcher's eye (does it exist?) but the value-stricken vision of the observer.In this sense, we are all vulnerable observers. A must for those worried about the deep questions posed by science as a neutral practice. All of us are part of a web of meanings that makes us understand the world and comprehend a fact as a fact. Good reading for those who think positively as well.
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She brings anthropology to life....,
By "leo-cubano" (Miami, Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (Paperback)
As an anthropology student in pursue of the human face of my career I found the light at the end of the tunnel when I read the Vulnerable Observer...and as a Cuban in exile, the book broke also my heart...Not only Dr. Behar marvelously demonstrates the humanness of the hands and mind behind the typewriter (actually behind the keyboard), but she also opens the doors for those of us who want to be visible to the reader, and not precisely as narcissists but because as she says in her book "...The exposure of the self who is also a spectator has to take us somewhere we couldn't otherwise get to. It has to be essential to the argument, not a decorative flourish, not exposure for its own sake. It has to move us beyond that eclipse into inertia ..., in which we find ourselves identifying so intensively with those whom we are observing that all possibility of reporting is arrested, made inconceivable. It has to persuade us of the wisdom of not leaving the writing pad blank" (Behar, 14). We need more anthropology like this and more anthropologists like her...Another vulnarable observer...
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The Unbiased Ethnographer,
By S. Livingston "Art Goddess" (Champaign, Il) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (Paperback)
This book covers the notion of including yourself in scholarly writing as a way of acknowledging your bias, and thusly over coming it. Beautifully written and interesting, especially for those seeking to learn creative non-fiction. (ie ethnographers, art educators, critics, anthropologists, etc)
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