Talk:Vincent Crapanzano

Addition to Biography

I wish to insert the following:

Vincent Crapanzano was born in 1939, and raised on the grounds of a New Jersey mental hospital. His Sicilian father worked as a psychiatrist, and died early. Subsequently, Crapanzano became estranged from his mother. He was schooled in Switzerland, and is married to Jane Kramer, a writer with the New Yorker. Te Karere (talk) 07:01, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

References

Memoir Section

It seems painfully obvious that a wannabe Graduate student or 'writer' penned the 'Memoir' portion of this article (one hopes it was not him, himself (no disrespect intended, but that'd be a clear violation of WiKiPeDiA policy)):

"Given Crapanzano’s stress on the individual, life histories, and the importance of self-reflection and self-positioning in anthropological research, it seems inevitable that he would turn to the consideration of his own life experiences. In Recapitulations, a self-reflective memoir – some have called it a meta-memoir – he reflects on the existential implications of both insignificant and significant events in his own life.[5] Taking ironic pleasure in the paradoxes in his life and by implication in the life of others, his self-questioning seems also to be questioning of the very questions he poses. In this way he leads his readers to question what they themselves take for granted in their own lives. Here, as in so much of Crapanzano’s writing, his intentions are tempered by his irony. "

This is clearly not only flowery prose but an obvious review of his memoir and is altogether inappropriate for an article.

This article could actually be fleshed out some, incidentally. There is a large portion of his career which is not covered (I suspect he wrote this himself or had a student write it for him?).

Cheers. - Random Stranger @ 06 August 2019, 15:17 (UTC).