John L. Comaroff
Professor
B.A. University of Cape Town, 1968
Ph.D. University of London, 1973
Office: Haskell 327
Phone: 773-702-7768
Email: jcomarof@midway.uchicago.edu
Homepage: http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/faculty/faculty_comaroff_john.shtml
John Comaroff is interested in comparative systems of politics and law, with special reference to the relationship between their cultural and social dimensions; in sociological and anthropological theory; in the cross-cultural study of kinship and marriage; in ideology and historical consciousness; in colonialism and postcoloniality; and in global capitalism and the culture of neoliberalism. His major area of research is Southern and Central Africa.
Research Interests
Sociology of Culture and Social Theory
Selected Publications
The Anthropology of Development and Globalization. Blackwell. 2005, editor.
"Policing Culture, Cultural Policing: Law and Social Order in Postcolonial South Africa," Law and Social Inquiry 29 (2004): 513-46.
"Reflections on Liberalism, Policulturalism, and ID-ology: Citizenship and Difference in South Africa," in Social Identities 9(d): 445-74, 2003
Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. (edited with Jean Comaroff.)
Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa: Critical Perspective, Problems, Paradoxes. University of Chicago Press, 1999. (edited with Jean Comaroff)
Of Revelation and Revolution: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier. Vol. 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. (with Jean Comaroff.)
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992. (With Jean Comaroff.)
Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity and Colonialism in South Africa. Vol. 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. (With Jean Comaroff.)
Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute in an African Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981
