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John Comaroff
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John Comaroff
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Born: 1945 - present, I'd removeSouth Africa
Education: Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, with interests in colonialism, the history of consciousness, politics, historical anthropology, law, post colonialism, modernity, and social theory.
He is a Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences at the ???.
Comaroff research includes in southern Africa on the building a modern society under post-modern conditions. What does that mean when it's at home? His interests also include studies on corporate Christianity, witchcraft, and political culture, among many other things.
Comaroff is President of the Association of Political and Legal Anthropology and has been both Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the Board of University Publications of the University of Chicago Press.
I can't tell from this if Jean C. is supposed to have her own section. I gotta say, if I was Jean Comaroff, I would want my own section.
His wife, Jean Comaroff, is also a Professor of Anthropology and the co-author or coeditor on many of his books. Together, they have written Of Revelation and Revolution I, Of Revelation and Revolution II, Of Revelation and Revolution III, Ethnography and the Historical Imagination, and Modernity and Its Malcontents.
Jean and John Comaroff hold workshops and discussion groups to enhance the learning and understanding of their students. ==
References: ==American Bar Encyclopedia
2009 John Comaroff. Electronic document, http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/faculty/profile/3, accessed
February 9, 2009.
EMuseum Mankato State University
John Comaroff. Electronic Document, , accessed February 9, 2009.
University of Chicago
2007 John Comaroff. Electronic document, http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/faculty/faculty_comaroff_john.shtml, accessed
February 9, 2009.
University of Chicago News Experts Guide
John Comaroff. Electronic document, http://experts.uchicago.edu/experts.php?id=25, accessed
February 9, 2009.