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  • 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

  • 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

  • Ethnicity, Commodity, In/Corporation

    Edición de George Paul Meiu, Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff ...
    Series series Framing the Global
    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 the USA, Native American groupings have expanded their involvement in gaming, design, and other ... Leer más

    $18.99 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

  • Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism

    Edición de Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Robert P. Weller ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    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 simultaneously local and translocal forms? To what extent does it make sense to describe the present ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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