Jay Ruby

Jay Ruby (born 1935) is an American scholar who was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University until his retirement in 2003. He received his B.A. in History (1960) and Ph.D. in Anthropology (1969) from the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]

He is a leader in the field of visual anthropology.

Fieldwork and research

As an archaeologist, Ruby conducted excavations in the American Southwest, West Mexico and the Republic of the Sudan. As a music critic and journalist, he interviewed pop music musicians, wrote album reviews and articles for the magazine, Jazz and Pop. As an ethnographer of visual culture, he conducted long term participant-observation in Central Pennsylvania and Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago.Larry Gross, USC and Ruby edited enhanced ebook, The Complete Sol Worth. In the fall of 2008,Ruby began a study of Bohemian Malibu. The University of Colorado Press published an enhanced ebook, Coffee House Positano: A Bohemian Oasis in Malibu, 1957-1962 and in 2016 The Property: Malibu's Other Colony became available. Ruby has also edited a multi-authored book "Bohemia in Southern California" that will appear in 2016.

Filmography

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