Tuhami - Portrét Maročana – Crapanzano Vincent (2016)

In the now-classic work Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan, Vincent Crapanzano describes the results of his encounters with an illiterate Moroccan who worked as a laborer in a tile factory and believed he had married Aisha Kandisha, a demoness with camel legs, who completely usurped him, forcing him to submit to her will. At night, he was haunted by demons and visited by saints. Tuhami sought to free himself from the power of Aisha Kandisha, in which he was initially unknowingly involved with the cultural anthropologist Crapanzano himself. The author shares with us his understanding of the life fates and the confused, unclear, contradictory, and yet truthful narrative of Tuhami. The book Tuhami has significantly contributed to the formation of a new approach in cultural anthropology characterized by reflexivity and experimentation with text. Crapanzano's pioneering work innovatively opened the question of the relationship between the anthropologist and the Other and their role in negotiating ethnographic reality. Crapanzano builds on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and anthropology, raising questions about the nature of reality and truth.