Jean und John L. Comaroff lehrten von 1978 bis zum Sommer 2012 Anthropologie an der University of Chicago. Im Herbst wechseln sie an die Harvard University auf Professuren für African und African American Studies sowie Anthropologie, die sie als Oppenheimer Research Fellows innehaben werden. Außerdem sind sie Honorarprofessoren an der University of Cape Town in Südafrika.
15 E-böcker av John L. Comaroff
Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff: Theory from the South
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 associ …
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Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff: Theory from the South
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 associ …
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€47.49
Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff: Ethnicity, Inc.
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 rel …
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€37.12
George Paul Meiu & Jean Comaroff: Ethnicity, Commodity, In/Corporation
In the economics of everyday life, even ethnicity has become a potential resource to be tapped, generating new sources of profit and power, new ways of being social, and new visions of the future. Th …
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€18.99
John L Comaroff & Isaac Schapera: Tswana
First published in 1953 and this edition in 1991, this book was created in association with the International African Institute. Since its first publication, anthropology and African Studies have cha …
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€48.78
John L Comaroff & Isaac Schapera: Tswana
First published in 1953 and this edition in 1991, this book was created in association with the International African Institute. Since its first publication, anthropology and African Studies have cha …
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€48.90
Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff: Law and Disorder in the Postcolony
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 …
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€51.35
Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff: Truth about Crime
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 und …
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€38.57
Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff: Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1
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 …
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€47.60
Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff: Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2
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 encoun …
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Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff: Politics of Custom
How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa? Rather than disappearing with the tide of modernity, as many expected, indigenous sovereigns are instead a rising forc …
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€48.97
Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff: Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism
The essays in Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism pose a series of related questions: How are we to understand capitalism at the millennium? Is it a singular or polythetic creature …
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€37.26
Nancy Rose Hunt: Colonial Lexicon
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the "colonial encounter" paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose …
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€42.01
Judith Farquhar: Appetites
Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains– …
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€38.50
Helen Gremillion: Feeding Anorexia
Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen …
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€37.32
