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38 produkter
Traveling Heavy
A Memoir in Between Journeys
Av Ruth Behar
Häftad, 2014
351 kr
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Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. With an open …
Everything I Kept – Todo Lo Que Guardé
Av Ruth Behar, Rolando Estévez
Häftad, 2018
223 kr
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Moving between the speech and silence of a woman struggling to speak freely, Ruth Behar embarks on a poetic voyage into her own vulnerability and the sacrifices of her exiled ancestors as she tries to understand love, loss, regret, and the things we keep and carry with us. Behar’s vivid renderings …
Vulnerable Observer
Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
Av Ruth Behar
Häftad, 2022
187 kr
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The 25th-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking book that changed anthropology, asserting that ethnographers needn’t exclude themselves or their vulnerabilities from their work In a new epilogue to this classic work, renowned ethnographer and storyteller Ruth Behar reflects on the groundbreaking …
Snowy Hanukkah for Luz
Av Ruth Behar
Inbunden, 2026
173 kr
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This contemporary, intergenerational Hanukkah picture book that incorporates both Ashkenazi and Sephardic traditions features text by Newbery Honor and Pura Belpré-winning author Ruth Behar and illustrations by Caldecott Honor-winner Marjorie Priceman.Luz is helping her Abuelita and Abuelito …
Lucky Broken Girl
Av Ruth Behar
E-bok, 2017
138 kr
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“A book for anyone mending from childhood wounds.”—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street In this unforgettable multicultural coming-of-age narrative—based on the author’s childhood in the 1960s—a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl is adjusting to her new life in New York City when her …
Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba
Av Ruth Behar
E-bok, 2015
784 kr
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For fifty-five years U.S.-Cuban relations were couched in terms of the Cold War, often pitting Cubans in the diaspora against Cubans who remained in their homeland. This collection of Cuban and Cuban-American writing and art celebrates the informal networks that Cubans in both countries have …
Women Writing Culture
Av Ruth Behar, Deborah A. Gordon
Häftad, 1996
297 kr
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In this collection of new reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology, feminist scholars explore a wide range of visions of identity and difference. How are feminists redefining the poetics and politics of ethnography? What are the contradictions of …
Letters from Cuba
Av Ruth Behar
Häftad, 2021
178 kr
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Pura Belpré Award Winner Ruth Behar's inspiring story of a Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, where she works to rescue the rest of her family The situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II. Esther's father has fled to Cuba, and she is the first …
Tía Fortuna's New Home
A Jewish Cuban Journey
Av Ruth Behar
Inbunden, 2022
246 kr
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A poignant multicultural ode to family and what it means to create a home as one girl helps her Tía move away from her beloved Miami apartment. When Estrella's Tía Fortuna has to say goodbye to her longtime Miami apartment building, The Seaway, to move to an assisted living community, Estrella …
El nuevo hogar de Tía Fortuna
Una historia judía-cubana
Av Ruth Behar
Inbunden, 2022
212 kr
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Una conmovedora oda multicultural a la familia y a lo que significa crear un hogar cuando una niña ayuda a su tía a mudarse de su querido apartamento en Miami. Cuando Fortuna, la tía de Estrella, tiene que despedirse de su antiguo edificio de apartamentos en Miami, The Seaway, para mudarse a una …
Pepita y Bebita (Pepita Meets Bebita Spanish Edition)
Av Ruth Behar, Gabriel Frye-Behar
Inbunden, 2023
277 kr
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Pepita y Bebita (Pepita Meets Bebita Spanish Edition)
Av Gabriel Frye-Behar, Ruth Behar
E-bok, 2023
79 kr
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Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village
(Published in cloth as Santa Maria del Monte)
Av Ruth Behar
Häftad, 2014
1367 kr
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This study of a northern Spanish community shows how the residents of Santa MarAa del Monte have acted together at critical times to ensure the survival of their traditional forms of social organization. The survival of these forms has allowed the villagers, in turn, to weather demographic, …
Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village
(Published in cloth as Santa Maria del Monte)
Av Ruth Behar
Inbunden, 2016
1893 kr
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This study of a northern Spanish community shows how the residents of Santa MarAa del Monte have acted together at critical times to ensure the survival of their traditional forms of social organization. The survival of these forms has allowed the villagers, in turn, to weather demographic, …
Translated Woman
Crossing the Border with Esperanza''s Story
Av Ruth Behar
E-bok, 2014
291 kr
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Translated Woman tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between Ruth Behar, a Cuban-American feminist anthropologist, and Esperanza Hernández, a Mexican street peddler. The tale of Esperanza''s extraordinary life yields unexpected and profound reflections on the mutual desires that bind …
Island Called Home
Returning to Jewish Cuba
Av Ruth Behar
Häftad, 2009
486 kr
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Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United States when they arrived in the island country in the 1920s. They even called it “Hotel Cuba.” But then the years passed, and the many Jews who came there from Turkey, Poland, and war-torn Europe …
Telling to Live
Latina Feminist Testimonios
Av Latina Feminist Group, Luz del Alba Acevedo m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
356 kr
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Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds. Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of …
Traveling Heavy
A Memoir in Between Journeys
Av Ruth Behar
Inbunden, 2013
714 kr
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Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. With an open …
Traveling Heavy
A Memoir in between Journeys
Av Ruth Behar
E-bok, 2013
519 kr
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Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. With an open …
Telling to Live
Latina Feminist Testimonios
Av Latina Feminist Group, Patricia Zavella m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
505 kr
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Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds. Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of …
