# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-behar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:37:21.328Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-behar"
name: "Ruth Behar"
slug: "ruth-behar"
description: "Ruth Behar is a Cuban-American anthropologist and writer. Her work includes academic studies, as well as poetry, memoir, and literary fiction. As an anthropologist, she has argued for the open adoption and acknowledgement of the subjective nature of research and participant-observers. She is a recipient of the Belpré Medal."
tagline: "Jewish Cuban American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_Behar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-11-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.75540133333334
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "ruthbehar"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1333189/"
    handle:    "nm1333189"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ruthbehar.com"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ruth Behar"
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    title: "Ruth Behar"
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    title: "Ruth Behar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Behar"
    title: "Ruth Behar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ruth Bahar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ruth Behar"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump