Reviews the books, "The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart," by Ruth Behar (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996), "Hungry Lighting: Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela," by Pei-Lin Yu (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1997) and "Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory," by Stefania Pandolfo (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).