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Jean Comaroff

Author of Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa

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Works by Jean Comaroff

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa (1991) 106 copies

Ethnicity, Inc. (2009) 72 copies

Ethnography and the historical imagination (1992) 62 copies

Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People (1985) 55 copies

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2: Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier (1997) 51 copies

Modernity and Its Malcontents (1993) 36 copies

Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism (2000) — Editor — 34 copies

Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (2006) 27 copies

Theory from the South (2011) 22 copies

The Truth about Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order (2016) 11 copies

Teoría desde el sur: O como los países centrales evolucionan hacia África. (Spanish Edition) (2013) 3 copies

Violencia y ley en la poscolonia, una reflexión sobre las complicidades Norte-Sur ; Obsesiones criminales después de Foucault, poscolonialismo, vigilancia policial y la… (2009) 2 copies

Zombies et frontières à l'ère néoliberale: Le cas de l'Afrique-du-Sud post-Apartheid (2010) 1 copy

Through the Looking-Glass: Colonial Encounters of the First Kind (1988) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (2002) — Contributor — 38 copies

Zombie Theory: A Reader (2017) — Contributor — 24 copies, 1 review

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Canonical name: Comaroff, Jean
Birthdate: 1946-07-22
Gender: female
Occupations: anthopologist
university professor
Relationships: Comaroff, John L. (spouse)
Nationality: USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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Gordon J. Laing Award

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa (1992)

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Works: 14
Also by: 2
Members: 483
Popularity: #51,117
Rating: 3.8

ISBNs: 46
Languages: 3

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