![]() A writer of anthropology, essays, poetry and fiction, Behar focuses on issues related to women and feminism. Her literary work is featured in the Michigan State University's Michigan Writers Series. īehar is a professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has specialized in studying the lives of women in developing societies. She travels regularly to Cuba and Mexico to study aspects of culture, as well as to investigate her family's roots in Jewish Cuba. She studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University, earning her doctorate in 1983. Behar attended local schools and studied as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, receiving her B.A. More than 94% of Cuban Jews left the country at that time, together with many others of the middle and upper classes. She was four when her family immigrated to the US following Fidel Castro's gaining power in the revolution of 1959. Life and work īehar was born in Havana, Cuba in 1956 to a Jewish-Cuban family of Sephardic Turkish, and Ashkenazi Polish and Russian ancestry. As an anthropologist, she has argued for the open adoption and acknowledgement of the subjective nature of research and participant-observers. ![]() ![]() Her work includes academic studies, as well as poetry, memoir, and literary fiction. Ruth Behar (born 1956) is a Cuban-American anthropologist and writer. ![]()
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