Recapitulations
  • Published: 15 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781590515938
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $69.99

Recapitulations

A Memoir

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Imagine a book in which a distinguished internationally praised anthropologist decides to tell his life story, knowing what he knows about cultural relativism and the precariousness of truth, and if to boot that very anthropologist writes like a wistful novelist watching his subject (himself) as if he was someone else. Imagine that, having read this book, you find out things about yourself that had never crossed your mind before. This is RECAPITULATIONS by Vincent Crapanzano. Read, enjoy, cry, laugh, be stunned and self-reflect.

A distinguished anthropologist tells his life story as a wistful novelist would, watching himself as if he were someone else

This memoir recaptures meaningful moments from the author’s life: as his childhood on the grounds of a psychiatric hospital, his psychiatrist father’s early death, his years at school in Switzerland and then at Harvard in the 1960s, his love affairs, his own teaching, and his far-flung travels. Taken together, these stories have the power of a nothing-taken-for-granted vision, fighting those conventions and ideologies that deaden the creative and inquiring mind.
  • Published: 15 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781590515938
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $69.99
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VINCENT CRAPANZANO

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Praise for Recapitulations

"Vincent Crapanzano is not only a thoughtful man who writes eloquently about his rich and adventurous life, but he is also a worldly emissary who advises us never to take for granted our own vision of the world: there is much to learn from people we do not understand and who do not understand us." --Gay Talese, author of A Writer's Life and other books

"What Mr. Crapanzano has to say about the state of white South Africa, when he writes as interpreter and commentator, is so interesting, [and] so insightful into the processes of deception and self-deception, yet without loss of human warmth." --J.M. Coetzee, New York Times (Praise for Waiting: The Whites of South Africa)