Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta John L. Comaroff
yhteensä 28 hakutulosta
Picturing a Colonial Past
This volume presents for the first time the selected photographs of renowned British anthropologist Isaac Schapera (1905-2003). Taken between 1929 and 1934, largely during his …
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 …
Of Revelation and Revolution
"Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of …
Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa
The essays in this collection explore the diverse, unexpected and controversial ways in which the idea of civil society has recently entered into populist politics and public …
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 …
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1
"Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of …
The 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 …
Rules and Processes
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 …
The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa
Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa. What are the fundamental issues, …
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2
In the second of a proposed three-volume study, Jean and John Comaroff continue their exploration of colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. Moving beyond the opening …
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 …