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Vincent Crapanzano is a Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature and Anthropology. His extensive research spans epistemology of interpretation, psychoanalysis, ethnopsychiatry, spirit possession, theories of self/other, domination, life histories, fieldwork methodology, imaginative horizons, memory, transgression, and literary criticism. Fieldwork includes Navajo communities, Moroccan Muslim confraternities, white South Africans during apartheid, American Christian fundamentalists, and Algerian Harkis.
Research interests focus on:
- Cross-cultural hermeneutics and interpretation theory
- Anthropological approaches to literature and narrative
- Existential and phenomenological frameworks
- Cultural constructions of selfhood and identity
- Political and historical dimensions of ethnographic writing
Publications include books translated into multiple languages, such as The Harkis: The Wound That Never Heals and Waiting: The Whites of South Africa, alongside scholarly articles and contributions to publications like The New Yorker and Times Literary Supplement.
