Vincent Crapanzano

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 , Waiting: The Whites of South Africa , Hermes' Dilemma & Hamlet's Desire: On the Epistemology of Interpretation , and Serving the Word: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bench --and has published...See more

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 , Waiting: The Whites of South Africa , Hermes' Dilemma & Hamlet's Desire: On the Epistemology of Interpretation , and Serving the Word: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bench --and has published articles in major periodicals and academic journals such as American Anthropologist, Les Temps Modernes, The New Yorker, New York Times and Times Literary Supplement . He lives in New York City. See less