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Law and Disorder in the Postcolony
Av Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff
Häftad, 2006
349 kr
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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 …
Law and Disorder in the Postcolony
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
E-bok, 2008
758 kr
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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 …
Picturing a Colonial Past
The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
359 kr
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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 earliest work among the Kgatla peoples of Bechuanaland (now Botswana), the images in this selection reveal an emotional …
Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa
Critical Perspectives
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
Inbunden, 2000
853 kr
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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 debate throughout Africa. In the introduction, anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff offer a critical theoretical analysis …
Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa
Critical Perspectives
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
Häftad, 2000
323 kr
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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 debate throughout Africa. In the introduction, anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff offer a critical theoretical analysis …
Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance
The Culture and History of a South African People
Häftad, 1985
620 kr
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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 …
Modernity and Its Malcontents
Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa
Av Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff
Häftad, 1993
298 kr
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What role does ritual play in the everyday lives of modern Africans? How are so-called "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver on its promises? Some of the essays in "Modernity and Its Malcontents" address familiar …
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1
Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
Av Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff
Häftad, 1991
323 kr
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"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 analysis. These they mine for clues to the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana minds. They are …
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2
The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
Häftad, 1997
358 kr
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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 moments of the encounter between the British Nonconformist missions and the Southern Tswana peoples, this volume explores …
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1
Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
E-bok, 2008
722 kr
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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 …
Ethnicity, Inc.
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
Inbunden, 2009
853 kr
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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 …
Ethnicity, Inc.
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
Häftad, 2009
255 kr
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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 …
Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance
The Culture and History of a South African People
E-bok, 2013
664 kr
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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 …
Truth about Crime
Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order
Av Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff
Häftad, 2016
264 kr
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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 …
Politics of Custom
Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
Inbunden, 2018
1108 kr
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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 force, often wielding substantial power and legitimacy despite major changes in the workings of the …
Politics of Custom
Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
Häftad, 2018
342 kr
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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 force, often wielding substantial power and legitimacy despite major changes in the workings of the …
Politics of Custom
Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa
Av Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff
E-bok, 2018
662 kr
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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 force, often wielding substantial power and legitimacy despite major changes in the workings of the …
Ethnicity, Commodity, in/Corporation
Av George Paul Meiu, Jean Comaroff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
900 kr
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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. Throughout Africa, ethnic corporations have been repurposed to do business in mining or tourism; in …
Ethnicity, Commodity, in/Corporation
Av George Paul Meiu, Jean Comaroff m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
412 kr
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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. Throughout Africa, ethnic corporations have been repurposed to do business in mining or tourism; in …
Ethnography And The Historical Imagination
Av John Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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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, …
Ethnography And The Historical Imagination
Av John Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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This book focuses on 'imaginative sociology,' demonstrating the techniques by which social science may capture the contexts that human beings construct and inhabit. It argues for the continuing value of a historical anthropology in which ethnography and culture remain vital.
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
Av Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff
E-bok, 2019
838 kr
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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, …
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
Av Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff
E-bok, 2019
814 kr
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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, …
Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
Häftad, 2001
440 kr
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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? What are we to make of the culture of neoliberalism that appears to accompany it, taking on …
Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism
Av Robert P. Weller, Jean Comaroff m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
652 kr
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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? What are we to make of the culture of neoliberalism that appears to accompany it, taking on …
Theory from the South
Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
E-bok, 2015
706 kr
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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 …
Theory from the South
Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
E-bok, 2015
727 kr
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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 …
Theory from the South
Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa
Av Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff
Inbunden, 2011
3055 kr
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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 …
Theory from the South
Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa
Av Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff
Häftad, 2011
617 kr
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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 …
Etnicidad S,A
Av Jean Comaroff, John L m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
137 kr
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Parques temáticos étnicos, casinos de los pueblos originarios de América del Norte, la marca "Escocia", una religión registrada como propiedad intelectual, "bosquimanos" de la etnia san que poseen derechos de patente que valen en potencia millones de dólares, naciones que actúan como empresas …
