Prof. Jean Comaroff in Cape Town, South Africa, February 2009
Born
(1946-07-22) 22 July 1946 (age 77)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma mater
University of Cape Town London School of Economics
Scientific career
Fields
Anthropology
Institutions
University of Chicago Harvard University
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Political and legal anthropology
Basic concepts
Status and rank
Ascribed status
Achieved status
Social status
Caste
Age grade/Age set
Leveling mechanism
Leadership
Big man
Patriarchy
Matriarchy
Elder
Pantribal sodalities
Chief
Paramount chief
Polities
Band society
Segmentary lineage
Tribe
Chiefdom
Petty kingdom
House society
Ethnic group
Theatre state
Law and custom
Customary law
Legal culture
Case studies
Acephelous
Societies without hierarchical leaders
African Political Systems
Papuan Big man system
The Art of Not Being Governed
State
Non-western state systems
Negara
Mandala
Technology, Tradition, and the State in Africa
Legal systems
Kapu
Colonialism and resistance
Europe and the People Without History
Cargo cult
Major theorists
E. Adamson Hoebel
Georges Balandier
F. G. Bailey
Fredrik Barth
Jeremy Boissevain
Robert L. Carneiro
Henri J. M. Claessen
Jean Comaroff
John Comaroff
Pierre Clastres
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Wolfgang Fikentscher
Meyer Fortes
Morton Fried
Ernest Gellner
David Graeber
Lesley Gill
Ulf Hannerz
Thomas Blom Hansen
Ted C. Lewellen
Edmund Leach
Ralph Linton
Elizabeth Mertz
Sidney Mintz
Sally Falk Moore
Rodney Needham
Marshall Sahlins
James C. Scott
Elman Service
Aidan Southall
Jonathan Spencer
Bjorn Thomassen
Douglas R. White
Eric Wolf
Related articles
Circumscription theory
Legal anthropology
Left–right paradigm
State formation
Political economy in anthropology
Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems
Journals
Political and Legal Anthropology Review
Journal of Legal Anthropology
Journal of Law and Society
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Jean Comaroff (born 22 July 1946) 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.[1] 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.[2]
^[1] Archived December 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^"Jean Comaroff • Public Culture". Publicculture.org. Archived from the original on 2015-11-07. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
JeanComaroff (born 22 July 1946) is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard...
his study of African and African-American society. Comaroff and his wife, anthropologist JeanComaroff, have collaborated on publications examining post-colonialism...
Comaroff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: JeanComaroff (born 1947), South African anthropologist, wife of John John Comaroff (born...
Social Theory. Routledge. pp. 420–422. ISBN 978-1-13-678694-5. Gardiner, Jean (1999). "Patriarchy". In O'Hara, Phillip A. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Political...
to similar criticisms to anthropology: 'as Bernard Cohn and John and JeanComaroff have observed, studies in which societies were represented in this way...
Journal of Church & State. 51 (4): 663–691. doi:10.1093/jcs/csp090. Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John (2010) [1997]. "Africa Observed: Discourses of the Imperial...
387–88. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition. (1994), p. 1215. Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John L. (1991). Of Revelation and Revolution. ATLA Special Series...
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Press (University of Michigan). p. 427. ISBN 9781594601347. JeanComaroff, John L. Comaroff (1993). Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in...
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Rural Areas. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 5–39. ISBN 978-3-110-80773-8. Briggs, Jean L. (1982). "Living Dangerously:The contradictory foundations of value in...
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French), New York University (Sally Engle Merry), Harvard University (JeanComaroff ), and George Mason University (Susan Hirsch). In Europe, the following...
Between Identity and Diversity". (Bern) 2006. p 15. Camoroff, John L. and Jean Camoroff 2009: Ethnicity Inc. Chicago: Chicago Press. The Invention of Tradition...
of this arose with the famous work of the anthropologists John and JeanComaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution which treated historical events from anthropological...
The theory has its roots in the work of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) and of Jean Bodin (1530–1596), but it was first organized around anthropological evidence...
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