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John Comaroff
Born
(1945-01-01) 1 January 1945 (age 79)
Cape Town, South Africa
Alma mater
University of Cape Town London School of Economics
Scientific career
Fields
Anthropology
Institutions
Harvard University
Doctoral advisor
Isaac Schapera
Part of a series on
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
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
Social and cultural anthropology
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John L. Comaroff (born 1 January 1945)[1] is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University. He is recognised for his study of African and African-American society. Comaroff and his wife, anthropologist Jean Comaroff, have collaborated on publications examining post-colonialism and the Tswana people of South Africa. He has written several texts describing his research and has presented peer-reviewed anthropological theories of African cultures that have relevance to understanding global society.
Comaroff was placed on paid administrative leave from his position at Harvard in August 2020 following allegations of sexual harassment and later placed on unpaid leave in January 2022.[2] He has resumed teaching since September 2022.
^Europa Publications, International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 (Routledge, 2003: ISBN 1-85743-179-0), p. 111.
^Kim, Ariel H.; Xu, Meimei (21 January 2022). "Harvard Anthropology Prof. John Comaroff Placed on Leave Following Sexual Harassment, Professional Misconduct Inquiries". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
John L. Comaroff (born 1 January 1945) is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies...
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Ethnology, Vol. 24, No. 2 (April 1985), pp. 105–120. JSTOR 3773553. John L. Comaroff (1981), Rules and Processes, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-11424-4;...
"Interculturalism: Between Identity and Diversity". (Bern) 2006. p 15. Camoroff, John L. and Jean Camoroff 2009: Ethnicity Inc. Chicago: Chicago Press. The Invention...
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