Recapitulations

"A book of memories about the act of remembering. In this memoir, anthropologist [Vincent] Crapanzano...uses all the tools of his trade, approaching his memories skeptically and psychoanalytically, as a set of data where the truth is wrapped in self-protective layers. Crapanzano's self-conscious, self-analytical style makes this a unique and interesting search for lost time." --Kirkus
"[A]...thoughtful, intellectually engaging book that looks at how we organize our memories, understand ourselves and the world around us, and create and recreate meaning in our lives...An intriguing, perceptive memoir that encourages readers to think more deeply about their own lives." --Book Reporter
"[An] elegant probing of identity, nostalgia, memory, and loss." --Publishers Weekly
"[A] stylish, splendidly literary memoir." --Times Literary Supplement
"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