A01=Vincent Crapanzano
anthropology
Author_Vincent Crapanzano
biography
case study
Category=DNBM
Category=JBSL
Category=JMC
colonialism
delusion
demon
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ethnography
folk belief
folklore
hallucination
haunting
lacan
life history
magic
marriage
mental illness
morocco
nonfiction
north africa
paranormal
phenomenology
profile
psychoanalysis
psychology
reality
religion
saints
sartre
self reflexivity
sociology
storytelling
subjectivity
succubus
supernatural
symbolism
truth
Product details
- ISBN 9780226118710
- Weight: 284g
- Dimensions: 29 x 7mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 1985
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from the demons and saints who haunt his life, and he seeks, with crippling ambivalence, liberation from 'A'isha Qandisha, the she-demon.
In a sensitive and bold experiment in interpretive ethnography, Crapanzano presents Tuhami's bizarre account of himself and his world. In so doing, Crapanzano draws on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and symbolism to reflect upon the nature of reality and truth and to probe the limits of anthropology itself. Tuhami has become one of the most important and widely cited representatives of a new understanding of the whole discipline of anthropology.
In a sensitive and bold experiment in interpretive ethnography, Crapanzano presents Tuhami's bizarre account of himself and his world. In so doing, Crapanzano draws on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and symbolism to reflect upon the nature of reality and truth and to probe the limits of anthropology itself. Tuhami has become one of the most important and widely cited representatives of a new understanding of the whole discipline of anthropology.
