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Theory from the South

Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

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Theory from the South

Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

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 we might understand these issues by using theory developed in the Global South. Challenging our ideas about 'developed' and 'developing' nations, Theory from the South provides new insights into key problems of our time.

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1317250621

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9781317250623

The Truth about Crime

Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

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The Truth about Crime

Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

This new book by the well-known anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff explores the global preoccupation with criminality in the early twenty-first century, a preoccupation strikingly disproportionate, in most places and for most people, to the risks posed by lawlessness to the conduct of everyday life. Ours in an epoch in which law-making, law-breaking, and law-enforcement are ever more critical registers in which societies construct, contest, and confront truths about themselves, an epoch in which criminology, broadly defined, has displaced sociology as the privileged means by which the social world knows itself. They also argue that as the result of a tectonic shift in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance, the meanings attached to crime and, with it, the nature of policing, have undergone significant change; also, that there has been a palpable muddying of the lines between legality and illegality, between corruption and conventional business; even between crime-and-policing, which exist, nowadays, in ever greater, hyphenated complicity. Thinking through Crime and Policing is, therefore, an excursion into the contemporary Order of Things; or, rather, into the metaphysic of disorder that saturates the late modern world, indeed, has become its leitmotif. It is also a meditation on sovereignty and citizenship, on civility, class, and race, on the law and its transgression, on the political economy of representation.

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University of Chicago Press

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022642491X

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9780226424910

Ethnicity, Inc.

By: John L. Comaroff,Jean Comaroff

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Ethnicity, Inc.

By: John L. Comaroff,Jean Comaroff

In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity? Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in venture capital by a group of traditional African chiefs. But their horizons are global: Native American casinos; Scotland’s efforts to brand itself; a Zulu ethno-theme park named Shakaland; a world religion declared to be intellectual property; a chiefdom made into a global business by means of its platinum holdings; San “Bushmen” with patent rights potentially worth millions of dollars; nations acting as commercial enterprises; and the rapid growth of marketing firms that target specific ethnic populations are just some of the diverse examples that fall under the Comaroffs’ incisive scrutiny. These phenomena range from the disturbing through the intriguing to the absurd. Through them, the Comaroffs trace the contradictory effects of neoliberalism as it transforms identities and social being across the globe. Ethnicity, Inc. is a penetrating account of the ways in which ethnic populations are remaking themselves in the image of the corporation—while corporations coopt ethnic practices to open up new markets and regimes of consumption. Intellectually rigorous but leavened with wit, this is a powerful, highly original portrayal of a new world being born in a tectonic collision of culture, capitalism, and identity.

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0226114732

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9780226114736

Ethnography on an Awkward Scale

On Qualitative Method in the Social Sciences

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

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Ethnography on an Awkward Scale

On Qualitative Method in the Social Sciences

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

Among the most influential anthropologists of our time, Jean and John Comaroff have imaginatively expanded the boundaries of anthropology, history, and the social sciences. This new book brings together their writings on the practice of ethnography--and the challenges facing the qualitative social sciences more generally in the late modern world. Fieldwork, both as vision and technique, is persuasively expanded to take in the â€œawkwardâ€ scales of consciousness, history, colonization, the commodification of human life, and more. Always they ask: where in local practice lurk social forces of larger scale? Essential reading for all anthropology students and anyone seeking an expanded picture of the potentials of qualitative social science.

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Paradigm Pub

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1594514666

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Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance

The Culture and History of a South African People

By: Jean Comaroff

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Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance

The Culture and History of a South African People

By: Jean Comaroff

In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state. Like others on the fringes of the modern world system, the Tshidi struggle to construct a viable order of signs and practices through which they act upon the forces that engulf them. Their dissenting Churches of Zion have provided an effective medium for reconstructing a sense of history and identity, one that protests the terms of colonial and post-colonial society and culture.

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0226114236

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Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance

The Culture and History of a South African People

By: Jean Comaroff

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Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance

The Culture and History of a South African People

By: Jean Comaroff

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Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

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Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

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."—Sally Falk Moore, American Anthropologist

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0226114414

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9780226114415

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2

The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier

By: John L. Comaroff,Jean Comaroff

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Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2

The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier

By: John L. Comaroff,Jean Comaroff

In the second of a proposed three-volume study, John and Jean Comaroff continue their exploration of colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. Moving beyond the opening moments of the encounter between the British Nonconformist missions and the Southern Tswana peoples, Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume II, explores the complex transactions—both epic and ordinary—among the various dramatis personae along this colonial frontier. The Comaroffs trace many of the major themes of twentieth-century South African history back to these formative encounters. The relationship between the British evangelists and the Southern Tswana engendered complex exchanges of goods, signs, and cultural markers that shaped not only African existence but also bourgeois modernity "back home" in England. We see, in this volume, how the colonial attempt to "civilize" Africa set in motion a dialectical process that refashioned the everyday lives of all those drawn into its purview, creating hybrid cultural forms and potent global forces which persist in the postcolonial age. This fascinating study shows how the initiatives of the colonial missions collided with local traditions, giving rise to new cultural practices, new patterns of production and consumption, new senses of style and beauty, and new forms of class distinction and ethnicity. As noted by reviewers of the first volume, the Comaroffs have succeeded in providing a model for the study of colonial encounters. By insisting on its dialectical nature, they demonstrate that colonialism can no longer be seen as a one-sided relationship between the conquering and the conquered. It is, rather, a complex system of reciprocal determinations, one whose legacy is very much with us today.

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0226114449

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Ways of Knowing

Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Dene Tha

By: Jean-Guy Goulet

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Ways of Knowing

Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Dene Tha

By: Jean-Guy Goulet

This innovative study reveals the creative world of a Native community. Once seminomadic hunters and gatherers who traveled by horse wagon, canoe, and dog sled, the Dene Tha of northern Canada today live in government-built homes in the settlement of Chateh. Their lives are a distinct blend of old and new, in which traditional forms of social control, healing, and praying entwine with services supplied by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a nursing station, and a Roman Catholic church. Many older cultural beliefs and practices remain: ghosts linger, reincarnating and sometimes causing deaths; past and future are interpreted through the Prophet Dance; ?animal helpers? become lifelong companions and sources of power; and personal visions and experiences are considered the roots of true knowledge. Why and how are such striking beliefs and practices still vital to the Dene Tha? Drawing on extensive fieldwork at Chateh, anthropologist Jean-Guy Goulet delineates the interconnections between the strands of meaning and experience with which the Dene Tha constitute and creatively engage their world. Goulet?s insights into the Dene Tha?s ways of knowing were gained through directly experiencing their lifeway rather than through formal instruction. This experiential perspective makes his study especially illuminating, providing an intimate glimpse of a remarkable and enduring Native community.

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0803221711

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Dangerous Crossings

By: Claire Jean Kim

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Dangerous Crossings

By: Claire Jean Kim

Dangerous Crossings interprets disputes in the United States over the use of animals in the cultural practices of nonwhite peoples.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107044944

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Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice

By: Jean Lave

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Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice

By: Jean Lave

In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her apprenticeship in the art of sustained fieldwork and an insightful overview of thirty years of changes in the empirical and theoretical facets of ethnographic practice. Examining the issues she confronted in her own work, Lave shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows. As ethnography takes on increasing significance to an ever widening field of thinkers on topics from education to ecology, this erudite but accessible book will be essential to anyone tackling the question of what it means to undertake critical and conceptually challenging fieldwork. Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice explains how to seriously explore what it means to be human in a complex world—and why it is so important.

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0226470725

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Tongnaab

The History of a West African God

By: Jean Allman,John Parker

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Tongnaab

The History of a West African God

By: Jean Allman,John Parker

For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting point for measuring the historic impact of Christianity and Islam. In Tongnaab, Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by tracing the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi god and ancestor shrine, Tongnaab, from the savanna of northern Ghana through the forests and coastal plains of the south. Using a wide range of written, oral, and iconographic sources, Allman and Parker uncover the historical dynamics of cross-cultural religious belief and practice. They reveal how Tongnaab has been intertwined with many themes and events in West African history -- the slave trade, colonial conquest and rule, capitalist agriculture and mining, labor migration, shifting ethnicities, the production of ethnographic knowledge, and the political projects that brought about the modern nation state. This rich and original book shows that indigenous religion has been at the center of dramatic social and economic changes stretching from the slave trade to the tourist trade.

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Indiana University Press

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0253111838

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The Undevelopment of Capitalism

Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany

By: Rebecca Emigh

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The Undevelopment of Capitalism

Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany

By: Rebecca Emigh

In The Undevelopment of Capitalism, Emigh argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies--especially the rural economy of Tuscany. As this highly developed urban market penetrated rural regions, it actually erased rural market institutions that rural inhabitants had used to organize agricultural production and family life. Thus, an advanced economy at the time of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance "undeveloped" over time. The economic development of this region in Italy was delayed as it failed to keep pace with the rest of Europe. Using a negative case methodology to show how urban and rural markets change, Emigh employs methods of historical sociology and sectoral theories to examine how markets can prosper and suffer at the same time. She shows how sectoral relations are crucial to transitions to capitalism and how capitalist development can also contract markets.

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Temple University Press

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1592136192

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Competing Catholicisms

The Jesuits, the Vatican and the Making of Postcolonial French Africa

By: Jean Luc Enyegue

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Competing Catholicisms

The Jesuits, the Vatican and the Making of Postcolonial French Africa

By: Jean Luc Enyegue

Explores the impact of Jesuit missions on the development of Christianity in postcolonial French Africa, which found itself at the centre of major shifts and struggles within global Christianity and world politics.

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184701271X

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Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America

By: Kay B. Warren,Jean E. Jackson

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Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America

By: Kay B. Warren,Jean E. Jackson

This volume focuses on movements, the politics of representation, and Latin America's anthropological and activist orientation.

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University of Texas Press

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0292791410

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Managing Multiculturalism

Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia

By: Jean E. Jackson

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Managing Multiculturalism

Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia

By: Jean E. Jackson

Indigenous people in Colombia constitute a mere three percent of the national population. Colombian indigenous communities' success in gaining collective control of almost thirty percent of the national territory is nothing short of extraordinary. In Managing Multiculturalism, Jean E. Jackson examines the evolution of the Colombian indigenous movement over the course of her forty-plus years of research and fieldwork, offering unusually developed and nuanced insight into how indigenous communities and activists changed over time, as well as how she the ethnographer and scholar evolved in turn. The story of how indigenous organizing began, found its voice, established alliances, and won battles against the government and the Catholic Church has important implications for the indigenous cause internationally and for understanding all manner of rights organizing. Integrating case studies with commentaries on the movement's development, Jackson explores the politicization and deployment of multiculturalism, indigenous identity, and neoliberalism, as well as changing conceptions of cultural value and authenticity—including issues such as patrimony, heritage, and ethnic tourism. Both ethnography and recent history of the Latin American indigenous movement, this works traces the ideas motivating indigenous movements in regional and global relief, and with unprecedented breadth and depth.

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Stanford University Press

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1503607704

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Witches and Demons

A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism

By: Jean La Fontaine

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Witches and Demons

A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism

By: Jean La Fontaine

Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. In this volume, Jean La Fontaine explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. The chapters touch on public scares about devil-worship, misconceptions about human sacrifice and the use of body parts in healing practices, and mistaken accusations of children practicing witchcraft. Together, these cases demonstrate that comparison is a powerful method of cultural understanding, but warns of the dangers and mistaken conclusions that untrained ideas about other ways of life can lead to.

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Berghahn Books

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1785330861

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'Incidental' Ethnographers

French Catholic Missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan Frontier, 1880-1930

By: Jean Michaud

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'Incidental' Ethnographers

French Catholic Missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan Frontier, 1880-1930

By: Jean Michaud

This book, connecting the fields of social anthropology and missiology, presents a body of colonial ethnographic writing applied to highland societies in the southern portion of the Mainland Southeast Asian massif. The writers under scrutiny are Catholic priests from the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris. Their texts from the Upper-Tonkin vicariate, in today's northern Vietnam, are paid special attention, notably through its major contributor, F.M. Savina. The author locates this ethnographic heritage against its historical, political and intellectual background. A comparison is conducted with French missionaries-cum-ethnographers who worked among the 'natives' in New France (Canada) in the 17th century, yielding the unexpected conclusion that practically nothing from this early period of experimentation was remembered.

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9047420217

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Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States

How Societies and States Count

By: Rebecca Jean Emigh,Dylan Riley,Patricia Ahmed

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Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States

How Societies and States Count

By: Rebecca Jean Emigh,Dylan Riley,Patricia Ahmed

Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States , the second of two volumes, uses historical and comparative methods to analyze censuses or census-like information in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy, starting in England over one-thousand years ago.

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Springer

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113748506X

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Cognition in Practice

Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life

By: Jean Lave

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Cognition in Practice

Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life

By: Jean Lave

Most previous research on human cognition has focused on problem-solving, and has confined its investigations to the laboratory. As a result, it has been difficult to account for complex mental processes and their place in culture and history. In this startling - indeed, disco in forting - study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity, - arithmetic problem-solving - out of the laboratory into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the 'real world', like all thinking, is shaped by the dynamic encounter between the culturally endowed mind and its total context, a subtle interaction that shapes 1) Both tile human subject and the world within which it acts. The study is focused on mundane daily, activities, such as grocery shopping for 'best buys' in the supermarket, dieting, and so on. Innovative in its method, fascinating in its findings, the research is above all significant in its theoretical contributions. Have offers a cogent critique of conventional cognitive theory, turning for an alternative to recent social theory, and weaving a compelling synthesis from elements of culture theory, theories of practice, and Marxist discourse. The result is a new way of understanding human thought processes, a vision of cognition as the dialectic between persons-acting, and the settings in which their activity is constituted. The book will appeal to anthropologists, for its novel theory of the relation of cognition to culture and context; to cognitive scientists and educational theorists; and to the 'plain folks' who form its subject, and who will recognize themselves in it, a rare accomplishment in the modern social sciences.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107268311

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How Everyday Forms of Racial Categorization Survived Imperialist Censuses in Puerto Rico

By: Rebecca Jean Emigh,Patricia Ahmed,Dylan Riley

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How Everyday Forms of Racial Categorization Survived Imperialist Censuses in Puerto Rico

By: Rebecca Jean Emigh,Patricia Ahmed,Dylan Riley

This book examines the history of racial classifications in Puerto Rico censuses, starting with the Spanish censuses and continuing through the US ones. Because Puerto Rican censuses were collected regularly over hundreds of years, they are fascinating “test cases” to see what census categories might have been available and effective in shaping everyday ones. Published twentieth-century censuses have been well studied, but this book also examines unpublished documents in previous centuries to understand the historical precursors of contemporary ones. State-centered theories hypothesize that censuses, especially colonial ones, have powerful transformative effects. In contrast, this book shows that such transformations are affected by the power and interests of social actors, not the strength of the state. Thus, despite hundreds of years of exposure to the official dichotomous and trichotomous census categories, these categories never replaced the continuous everyday ones because the census categories rarely coincided with Puerto Rican’s interests.

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Springer Nature

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3030825183

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Conjugal Rights

Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon

By: Rachel Jean-Baptiste

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Conjugal Rights

Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon

By: Rachel Jean-Baptiste

Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid–nineteenth century through 1960. Conventional historiography has depicted women as few in number and of limited influence in African colonial towns, but this book demonstrates that a sexual economy of emotional, social, legal, and physical relationships between men and women indelibly shaped urban life. Bridewealth became a motor of African economic activity, as men and women promised, earned, borrowed, transferred, and absconded with money to facilitate interpersonal relationships. Colonial rule increased the fluidity of customary marriage law, as chiefs and colonial civil servants presided over multiple courts, and city residents strategically chose the legal arena in which to arbitrate a conjugal-sexual conflict. Sexual and domestic relationships with European men allowed some African women to achieve a greater degree of economic and social mobility. An eventual decline of marriage rates resulted in new sexual mores, as women and men sought to rebalance the roles of pleasure, respectability, and legality in having sex outside of kin-sanctioned marriage. Rachel Jean-Baptiste expands the discourse on sexuality in Africa and challenges conventional understandings of urban history beyond the study of the built environment. Marriage and sexual relations determined how people defined themselves as urbanites and shaped the shifting physical landscape of Libreville. Conjugal Rights takes a fresh look at questions of the historical construction of race and ethnicity. Despite the efforts of the French colonial government and society to enforce boundaries between black and white, interracial sexual and domestic relationships persisted. Black and métisse women gained economic and social capital from these relationships, allowing some measure of freedom in the colonial capital city.

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Ohio University Press

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0821445030

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The Poetics of Radical Hope in Abderrahmane Sissako’s Film Experience

By: Olivier-Jean Tchouaffe

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The Poetics of Radical Hope in Abderrahmane Sissako’s Film Experience

By: Olivier-Jean Tchouaffe

The Poetics of Radical Hope: The Abderrhamane Sissako Experience communicates pieces of evidence that Sissako is the most talented and the most sophisticated filmmaker of his generation. This imaginative excellence emanates from new aspirations to fashion an original African cinematic aesthetic for a politic of radical hope and creative adaptation. Sissako’s contribution extends to all aspects of the indigenous motion pictures industry to help rebuild the continent’s cultural infrastructures and create intellectual and cultural spaces to mobilize narrative strategies to contribute in the making of potent African collectives. Far from being abstract, Sissako's logic of contribution resists facile reading and demands a direct and profound engagement with the text. Sissako is one of the best filmmakers working today because his cinema constitutes a generative contribution to the contemporary production of African intelligibility. This logic of contribution helps to better articulate the historical logics and practices of a continent in constant throes of situational emergencies. The cinemas confront African colonial legacies to contemporary globalization discourses that grip the contemporary global condition, notably: political instability, poverty, illiteracy, digital divide, global warming and food shortages, diseases and the so-called "clash of civilization.

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1498539823

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Anthropology and Development

Understanding Contemporary Social Change

By: Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan

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Anthropology and Development

Understanding Contemporary Social Change

By: Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan

This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology‘s principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions. The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity of social change and development, and the ways in which socio-anthropology can measure up to the challenge of this complexity. Part II looks more closely at some of the leading variables involved in the development process, including relations of production; the logics of social action; the nature of knowledge; forms of mediation; and ‘political‘ strategies.

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1848136137

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Antecedents of Censuses from Medieval to Nation States

How Societies and States Count

By: Rebecca Jean Emigh,Dylan Riley,Patricia Ahmed

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Antecedents of Censuses from Medieval to Nation States

How Societies and States Count

By: Rebecca Jean Emigh,Dylan Riley,Patricia Ahmed

Antecedents of Censuses From Medieval to Nation States, the first of two volumes, examines the influence of social formations on censuses from the medieval period through current times. The authors argue that relative influence of states and societies is probably not linear, but depends on the actual historical configuration of the states and societies, as well as the type of population information being collected. They show how information gathering is an outcome of the interaction between states and social forces, and how social resistance to censuses has frequently circumvented their planning, prevented their implementation, and influenced their accuracy.

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1137485035

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Fluent Bodies

Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance

By: Jean Langford

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Fluent Bodies

Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance

By: Jean Langford

An ethnography of Ayurvedic medicine which argues the ills it cures are largely effects of postcolonial identity.

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Duke University Press

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0822329484

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9780822329480

Global Subjects

A Political Critique of Globalization

By: Jean-François Bayart

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Global Subjects

A Political Critique of Globalization

By: Jean-François Bayart

Globalization is part of the fabric of our everyday lives. And yet we often view it as a threat to our identities, or even our very survival. This study offers a radically new vision of this phenomenon, one which goes completely against the way it is interpreted by neo-liberals or the anti-globalization movement.

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Polity

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0745636683

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9780745636689

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2

The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier

By: John L. Comaroff,Jean Comaroff

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The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier

By: John L. Comaroff,Jean Comaroff

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612

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University of Chicago Press

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0226114678

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9780226114675

Ethnicity, Inc.

By: John L. Comaroff,Jean Comaroff

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Ethnicity, Inc.

By: John L. Comaroff,Jean Comaroff

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250

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University of Chicago Press

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0226114732

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9780226114736

An Excursion Into the Criminal Anthropology of the Brave Neo South Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

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An Excursion Into the Criminal Anthropology of the Brave Neo South Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

In this book, authors Jean and John Comaroff investigate why it is that crime statistics have become a pervasive public passion in the South African postcolony. They explore what exactly those crime statistics make real, how they take on public life, by what means they convert the abstract into the intimate and tertiary knowledge into primary experience. Why is it that they have become deeply inscribed in narratives of personal being, so vital to the construction of moral publics, so integral to debates about the meaning of democracy, freedom and security? Conventionally framed as value-free information, these numbers appear to be taking on ever more political weight as the modernist state deregulates the functions of governance, as sovereignty is parsed and privatized, as control over the means of violence is rendered ambiguous, as a culture of "popular punitiveness" gains credence, as race is criminalized and crime racialized. As they do, modes of producing and deploying crime statistics themselves proliferate. This sets in train processes whose effects are deeply implicated in remaking the nation-state, its governance, and citizenship within it.

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3825896439

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9783825896430

Theory from the South

Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

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Theory from the South

Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

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Routledge

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1317250613

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9781317250616

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

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Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

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0226114473

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9780226114477

Woman and Nation

An Intercontextual Reading of the Gospel of John

By: Jean Kim

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Woman and Nation

An Intercontextual Reading of the Gospel of John

By: Jean Kim

By focusing on the religio-political dimension of the Gospel of John and using a postcolonial framework, Kim reads the Gospel of John as a Jewish nationalist discourse that develops at the expense of its female characters.

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BRILL

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9004494561

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9789004494565

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