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About the Author
Jean Comaroff is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, and Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town. She is co-editor of Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (2006). John L. Comaroff is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, and Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town. He is co-editor of Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (2006).
Reviews
"In this major transdisciplinary work, the Comaroffs (both anthropologists, Univ. of Chicago) have produced a well-crafted, nuanced, and sophisticated intervention in the meanings, limits, and Eurocentric underpinnings of modernity...The book is a welcome addition in debunking the Eurocentric binary between the 'rational' West and not so rational 'non-West' and provides a refreshing insight into what the 'South' has to offer in framing the future of the global human community. Theory from the South is not only 'from the South' but also 'of' and 'about the South.' The book further enhances the reputation of the Comaroffs as formidable critical intellectuals of the first order. Beautifully done. Essential."
--CHOICE December 2011 Vol. 49 No. 04
"Jean and John Comaroff put forward their case in the strongest possible terms, and they do so with flair, eloquence, and brilliance: that Africa in particular and the Global South more broadly are in the vanguard of world history, generative of global futures and theory to match. This is a book that will be read and debated with vigor and profit."
--Charles Piot, Duke University
Book Information
ISBN 9781594517655
Author Jean Comaroff
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
Weight(grams) 362g