Word: crapanzanos
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Ideal Foils. Jane Kramer, 31, a New Yorker staff writer, got her story by virtually living with Omar and Dawia for six months. She had come to Meknes with her anthropologist husband, Vincent Crapanzano, who was doing field work. In the book the Crapanzanos are thinly disguised as M. and Mme. Hugh, young American writers living near by. As Western pragmatists, they make ideal foils for the other characters. When Khadija vanishes, M. Hugh wants to charge down to the police station to start the wheels of orderly investigation. Having saved face by blaming the calamity on various "invisibles...
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