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“Ruth Behar is an anthropologist and this book belongs to a genre of ethnographic writing that is very illuminating about what Mexican society was like in the 20th century, which consists of interviewing what we might call ordinary people, many of them very poor people, and then editing and reordering the answers of those people into narratives of their lives.” Read more...
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