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  • ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATION
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    ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATION
    JOHN COMAROFF / JEAN COMAROFF
    Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences cons...

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  • THEORY FROM THE SOUTH
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    THEORY FROM THE SOUTH
    JEAN COMAROFF / JOHN L. COMAROFF
    As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be 'evolving' into the kind of societies normally associated with the 'Global South'. Anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff draw on their long experience of living in Africa to address a range of familiar themes - democracy, national bo...

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  • THE TRUTH ABOUT CRIME
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    THE TRUTH ABOUT CRIME
    JEAN COMAROFF / JOHN L. COMAROFF
    In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves—it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing—from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial ...

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  • BODY OF POWER, SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE
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    BODY OF POWER, SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE
    JEAN COMAROFF
    In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state. Like others on the fringes of the modern world system, the Tshidi struggle to construct a viable order of signs and practices through which they act upon the forces that engulf them. Their dissenti...

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  • ETHNICITY, INC.
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    ETHNICITY, INC.
    JOHN L. COMAROFF / JEAN COMAROFF
    In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity? Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ...

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  • OF REVELATION AND REVOLUTION, VOLUME 2
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    OF REVELATION AND REVOLUTION, VOLUME 2
    JOHN L. COMAROFF / JEAN COMAROFF
    In the second of a proposed three-volume study, John and Jean Comaroff continue their exploration of colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. Moving beyond the opening moments of the encounter between the British Nonconformist missions and the Southern Tswana peoples, Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume II, explores the complex transactions—both epic and ordinary—amo...

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  • LAW AND DISORDER IN THE POSTCOLONY
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    LAW AND DISORDER IN THE POSTCOLONY
    JEAN COMAROFF AND JOHN L. COMAROFF (EDITORS)
    Are postcolonies haunted more by criminal violence than other nation-states? The usual answer is yes. In Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, Jean and John Comaroff and a group of respected theorists show that the question is misplaced: that the predicament of postcolonies arises from their place in a world order dominated by new modes of governance, new sorts of empires, new sp...

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  • OF REVELATION AND REVOLUTION, VOLUME 1
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    OF REVELATION AND REVOLUTION, VOLUME 1
    JEAN COMAROFF / JOHN L. COMAROFF
    Of Revelation and Revolution is at once a highly imaginative, richly detailed history of colonialism, Christianity, and consciousness in South Africa, and a theoretically challenging consideration of the most difficult questions posed by the nature of social experience. Although primarily concerned with the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Of Revelation and Revolution ...

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