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Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
- J. Comaroff, J. Comaroff
- Philosophy
- 1991
Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming
- J. Comaroff, J. Comaroff
- ArtMillennial Capitalism and the Culture of…
- 1 May 2000
he global triumph of capitalism at the millennium, its Second Coming, raises a number of conundrums for our understanding of history at the end of the century. Some of its corollaries—“plagues of the…
Theory from the South: Or, how Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa
- J. Comaroff, J. Comaroff
- Economics
- 30 August 2011
‘The Global South’ has become a shorthand for the world of non-European, postcolonial peoples. Synonymous with uncertain development, unorthodox economies, failed states, and nations fraught with…
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
- J. Vansina, J. Comaroff, J. Comaroff
- SociologyEthnography and the Historical Imagination
- 22 January 1993
Theory, Ethnography, Historiography * Ethnography and the Historical Imagination * Of Totemism and Ethnicity * Bodily Reform as Historical Practice Dialectical Systems, Imaginative Sociologies * The…
Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony
- J. Comaroff, J. Comaroff
- ArtFrom the Margins
- 1 May 1999
Postcolonial South Africa, like other postrevolutionary societies, appears to have witnessed a dramatic rise in occult economies: in the deployment, real or imagined, of magical means for material…
Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa, Volume 1.
- J. Comaroff, J. Comaroff
- Sociology
- 1 May 1992
Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute in an African Context
- J. Comaroff, Simon A. Roberts
- Sociology
- 24 January 1983
"Rules and Processes" is at once a compelling essay in social theory and a pathbreaking ethnography of dispute in an African society. On the basis of a sensitive study of the Tswana of southern…
Colonialism, Culture, and the Law: A Foreword
- J. Comaroff
- History, LawLaw & Social Inquiry
- 1 April 2001
its first fluores- cence, that literature evinced a rather crude topos. Its primary concern was to demonstrate the importance of legalities, broadly defined, in the imposi- tion of control by Europe…
Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony
- J. Comaroff, J. Comaroff
- Art, SociologyFrontiers of Capital
- 31 December 2020
Most often construed as a transhistorical, transcultural category, “youth” has in fact been constructed as a socio-cultural group through the narratives of modernity. However, as ambivalent…
Ethnography on an Awkward Scale
- J. Comaroff, J. Comaroff
- Sociology
- 1 June 2003
In what ways has the movement of anthropology off the reservation, and off the island, challenged the ethnographic practice that has historically been its raison d'être? How has the increasing…
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