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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Since its initial 2011 publication, Theory from the South has stimulated a new field of inquiry from leading scholars, while world developments have escalated and supported its original thesis of how "Euroamerica has evolved toward Africa." Not least of these is the many resemblances of the Trump presidency to that of Jacob Zuma, transformations in the nature of many of the world¿s Northern democracies, the rise of populist politics, the inten...

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Preface1. IntroductionJohn L. and Jean Comaroff2. Practicing Citizenship in Imperial ParisGary Wilder3. Developing Bushmen: Building Civil(ized) Society in the Kalahari and BeyondElizabeth Garland4. Civil Society and Its Presuppositions: Lessons from UgandaMikael Karlstrom5. Colonial Constructions- Historicizing Debates on Civil Society in AfricaWilliam Cunningham Bissell6. Stating Politisi: The Dialogues of Publicity and Secrecy in Sierra Leo...

Der »Globale Süden« bezeichnet die außereuropäischen, postkolonialen Gesellschaften. Sie werden meist mit prekärer Entwicklung, gescheiterten Staaten, Korruption und Armut assoziiert. Jean und John Comaroff widersprechen dieser Sicht vom rückständigen Süden. Mehr noch: Erst aus der Perspektive Afrikas, so ihre These, lässt sich die globalisierte Welt verstehen. Denn im Süden zeigt sich in vielerlei Hinsicht die Zukunft des Nordens, sei es im V...

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Second in a proposed three-volume study of colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. This fascinating study shows how the initiatives of colonial missions collided with local tradition, giving rise to new cultural practices and patterns of ethnicity. The Comaroffs show that colonialism was less a relationship of conqueror and conquered, and more one of a complex system of reciprocity. 32 halftones. 560 pp.

Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis. These they mine for clues to the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana minds. They are themselves imagining the imagination of others, and they do the job with characteristic aplomb....The first volume creates an appetite for the second."--S...

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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 capital and multiculturalism. They consider how w...

A special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE, this collection of essays forms an empirically grounded, conceptual discussion that posits global millennial capitalism as a historical formation.

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Chapter 1: IntroductionJean and John ComaroffPart I: (Re)visions of Power, Ritual (Trans)formationsChapter 2: Narratives of Power, Images of Wealth: The Ritual Economy of Bori in the MarketAdeline MasquelierChapter 3: Chewa Visions and Revisions of Power: Transformations of the Nyau Dance in Central MalawiDeborah KaspinChapter 4: Government by Seduction: History and the Tropes of "Mounting" in Oyo-Yoruba ReligionJ. Lorand MatoryPart II: Moral ...

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