Recapitulations
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (881 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590515935 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bookreporter said A thoughtful, intellectually engaging book that looks at how we organize our memories, understand ourselves and create meaning. To simply call RECAPITULATIONS, anthropologist Vincent Crapanzano's new book, an autobiography doesn't seem quite right. To be sure, Crapanzano tells his life story (or a version of his life story) in his dense, free-ranging book. But he has also written an autobiography about writing an autobiography, 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.Crapanzano's life st. who wants to have a good time hearing interesting gossips about famous people Recapitulations is required reading for anybody who wants to know how to think about her own life, who wants to understand how an inquisitive mind takes in the world around him both at home and abroad, who wants to figure out how people from different cultures experience the meaning of life, death, madness, intimacy and otherness, who wants to learn about the world of ideas, who wants to ponder over how anger, resentment, forgiveness take hold, who wants to have a good time hearing interesting gos
A distinguished anthropologist tells his life story as a wistful novelist would, watching himself as if he were someone elseThis 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.
"A book of memories about the act of remembering.In this memoir, anthropologist Vincent Crapanzanouses 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"Athoughtful, 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 livesAn intriguing, perceptive memoir that encourages readers to think more deeply
. Vincent Crapanzano is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of six books—The Fifth World of Forster Bennett: Portrait of a Navajo, The Hamadsha: A Study in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry, Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan