Recapitulations: A Memoir

By Vincent Crapanzano

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590515935
• ISBN13: 9781590515938
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Other Press (NY)
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"