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Jean Comaroff

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#90

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#144

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#50

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Bachelors Anthropology University of Cape Town

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According to Wikipedia, Jean Comaroff is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University. She is an expert on the effects of colonialism on people in Southern Africa. Until 2012, Jean was the Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.

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Jean Comaroff's Published Works

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Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism (2001) (611)
Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming (2000) (610)
Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People (1986) (568)
Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony (1999) (558)
Law and disorder in the postcolony (2006) (298)
Naturing the Nation: Aliens, Apocalypse and the Postcolonial State (2001) (292)
Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism (2002) (223)
the madman and the migrant: work and labor in the historical consciousness of a South African people (1987) (206)
Ethnography on an Awkward Scale (2003) (193)
Christianity and colonialism in South Africa (1986) (173)
Ambiguity and the search for meaning: childhood leukaemia in the modern clinical context. (1981) (161)
Beyond Bare Life: AIDS, (Bio)Politics, and the Neoliberal Order (2021) (151)
Criminal Obsessions, after Foucault: Postcoloniality, Policing, and the Metaphysics of Disorder (2004) (125)
Criminal justice, cultural justice: The limits of liberalism and the pragmatics of difference in the new south africa (2004) (119)
Reflections on liberalism, policulturalism, and ID-ology: citizenship and difference in South Africa (2003) (107)
The Politics of Conviction: Faith on the Neo-liberal Frontier (2009) (74)
Healing and cultural transformation: the Tswana of southern Africa. (1981) (68)
A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Placebo Therapy in General Practice (1976) (68)
THE EMPIRE’S OLD CLOTHES : Fashioning the colonial subject (2002) (58)
Healing and the cultural order: the case of the Barolong boo Ratshidi of southern Africa (1980) (52)
Missionaries and Mechanical Clocks: An Essay on Religion and History in South Africa (1991) (51)
Effects of social change on wildlife consumption taboos in northeastern Madagascar (2015) (50)
The human health and conservation relevance of food taboos in northeastern Madagascar (2015) (33)
Pentecostalism, Populism and the New Politics of Affect (2012) (32)
Of revelation and revolution, Vol. 2 (1997) (28)
The End of History, Again?: Pursuing the Past in the Postcolony (2012) (27)
THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE CONSTITUTION AND ‘THINGS AFRICAN’ (2005) (24)
Books Received (1978) (24)
BODILY REFORM AS HISTORICAL PRACTICE: THE SEMANTICS OF RESISTANCE IN MODERN SOUTH AFRICA (1985) (21)
ANTHROPOLOGY, THEOLOGY, CRITICAL PEDAGOGY: A Conversation with Jean Comaroff and David Kyuman Kim (2011) (17)
Communicating Information about Non-Fatal Illness: The Strategies of a Group of General Practitioners (1976) (14)
on the founding fathers, fieldwork and functionalism: a conversation with Isaac Schapera (1988) (13)
Consuming Passions: Child Abuse, Fetishism, and "The New World Order" (2021) (13)
Portrait: Jean Comaroff (2012) (13)
Response to Ashraf and Galor 'The Out of Africa Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity and Comparative Economic Development' (2012) (8)
The Portrait of an Unknown South African: Identity in a Global Age (1997) (8)
Second thoughts: a response to Sally Falk Moore (1999) (7)
Pentecostalism, ‘Post- secularism,’ and the Politics of Affect: In Africa and Beyond (2015) (7)
‘Anthropologists Are Talking’: About Anthropology and Post-Apartheid South Africa (2012) (7)
The Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture History of a South African People (1987) (6)
Anthropology and Crime: An Interview with Jean Comaroff (2010) (6)
Invasive Aliens: The Late-Modern Politics of Species Being (2017) (5)
Of Fallacies and Fetishes: A Rejoinder to Donham (2001) (5)
Reading, Rioting, and Arithmetic: The Impact of Mission Education on Black Consciousness in South Africa (1997) (4)
The Political Mythology of Apartheid.Leonard Thompson (1987) (3)
When the virus makes the timeline (2020) (2)
In/ter/dependence: An afterword (2021) (1)
Portraits by the ethnographer as a young man : The photography of Isaac Schapera in 'old Botswana' (2006) (1)
Occult Economies, Revisited (2018) (1)
Ethnographic researches in the North and their contribution to global anthropology : an attempt at defining the present situation (2010) (1)
Livingstone’s Last Stand: The End of Development As We Know It? (2020) (0)
Mind in the Heart of Darkness: Value and Self-Identity Among the Tswana of Southern Africa.Hoyt Alverson (1982) (0)
The Wealth of Ethno-Nations: Notes on the Identity Economy (2022) (0)
Beyond Explanation: Religious Dimensions in Cultural Anthropology. Mark Kline Taylor (1987) (0)
ETHICS OF SCALE: RELOCATING POLITICS AFTER LIBERATION Africa in Theory: A Conversation (2010) (0)
The End Of History, Again? (2003) (0)
Twenty Years after Of Revelation and Revolution: An Interview with Jean Comaroff (2011) (0)

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