Vincent Crapanzano is currently revising the Jensen lectures on the Anthropology of Imagination which he delivered in spring, 1999, in Frankfurt. These include lectures on the genealogy of the imagination; on landscape as narrated and moralized, on intransigeant moments (those inner and out of time/articulation) in exchange of gifts, communicative exchanges, and ritual passages; on hope as a category of and for social and cultural analysis; with special emphasis on cargo cults; on the body and pain as anchoring linguistic systems, emphasizing trauma and memory; on ecstasy, less in a mystrical sense and more in a sense of a stepping-out, a distanciation, achieving an transcendent position; on memory as a sort of backword/justificatory frontier, in which he argues for considering memory, both indidivual and social as a memorialization rather than as simply a "content'; and on end-of-world scenarios, in which he discusses Fundamentalist apocalypses, and phantasies, in which he treats of a Swiss peasant's belief in the end of the world.

He is also working on a final chapter to a collection of essays on the articulation fo dramatically transformative experiences. Three of the four essays have been published: 1.) on Herculine Barbin, a 19th century "woman" whose gender identity was legally cha;nged to a man -- she was thought to be a hermaphrodite; 2.) on the "paranoid" Schreber's Memoirs about his illness; 3.) on a case of Rhodesian anti-terrorist soldier who was also a born-again Christian and the messy way in which he articulated his military and religious career; 4.) (yet to be written) on legal constructions of biographies of people in vegetative states who can no longer make any decisions about their fate.

Some of his recent publications include: