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Pages: 368
Authors: Jean Comaroff
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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 Comar
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Authors: John L. Comaroff
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The essays in this important new collection explore the diverse, unexpected, and controversial ways in which the idea of civil society has recently entered into
The Truth about Crime
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Jean Comaroff
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This new book by the well-known anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff explores the global preoccupation with criminality in the early twenty-first century,
Theory from the South
Language: en
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Authors: Jean Comaroff
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-17 - Publisher: Routledge

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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' int
Ethnicity, Inc.
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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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-