Vincent Crapanzano est professeur en anthropologie et littérature comparée à la City University of New-York.
Il est docteur de l'Université de Colombia. Il a écrit : The Fifth World of Forster Bennett : A Portrait of a Navaho ; The Hamadsha: An Essay in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry; Tuhami : A Portrait of a Moroccan ; Waiting : The Whites of South Africa ; Hermes' Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire : On the Epistemology of Interpretation; Serving the Word : From the Pulpit to the Bench and Imaginative Horizons : An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology..