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  • Ethnography and the Historical Imagination

    de John Comaroff, Jean Comaroff ...
    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, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences constructed and ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Theory from the South

    Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa

    de Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff ...
    Series series The Radical Imagination
    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 of living in Africa to address a range of familiar themes - democracy, national borders, labour and ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The Tswana

    de Isaac Schapera, John L Comaroff ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    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 changed a great deal, but the bedrock of both remains unchanged: solid, sensitive ethnographic and historical accounts of the peoples and cultures of the continent.Part One is by Isaac Schapera whose ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Teoria dal sud del mondo

    Ovvero, come l'Euro-America sta evolvendo verso l'Africa

    de Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff ...
    Traducido por Mario Capello ...
    Series series Terreni di confronto
    Si parla spesso di un "Sud globale" afflitto da sviluppo incerto, economie informali, stati falliti e corrotti, povertà, inciviltà e conflitti. Tuttavia molte nazioni dell'emisfero settentrionale sperimentano sempre più spesso le crisi provocate da privatizzazioni, tracolli fiscali, corruzione, conflitti etnici e altri fenomeni similari. Sembra quasi che le nazioni del Nord stiano evolvendo in ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ethnicity, Inc.

    de John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    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 future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Truth about Crime

    Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

    de Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff ...
    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—from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • A Colonial Lexicon

    Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo

    de Nancy Rose Hunt, Arjun Appadurai, John L. Comaroff, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    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 Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to reveal how concerns about strange new objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Feeding Anorexia

    Gender and Power at a Treatment Center

    de Helen Gremillion, Arjun Appadurai, John L. Comaroff, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    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 Gremillion reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of gender, individualism, physical fitness, and family life that have contributed to the dramatic increase in ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

    Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa

    de Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff ...
    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 with the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Of Revelation and Revolution also looks forward ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The Politics of Custom

    Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa

    Edición de John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff ...
    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 global political economy in the post–Cold War era—changes in which they are themselves deeply implicated ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Appetites

    Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China

    de Judith Farquhar, Arjun Appadurai, John L. Comaroff ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    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--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in Beijing—Appetites challenges the assumption that the mundane enjoyments of bodily life are ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa

    Beyond the Margins

    de Wale Adebanwi, Jane Guyer, John and Jean Comaroff, Maxim Bolt, Michael J. Watts, Peter L Geschiere, Sara S. Berry, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Tristan Oestermann, Adigun Agbaje0, Anne-Maria Makhulu1, Celestin Monga2, David Pratten3, Elisha Elisha Renne4, Frederick Cooper5, Gbemisola Animasawun6, James Ferguson7 ...
    What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD