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This is certainly a brilliant book.
Rules and Processes is a complex but eminently successful excursion into the logic of dispute processes among two Tswana peoples of southern Africa and an innovative processual analysis that deserves to be ranked with the foremost studies in the processual mode in recent years. One of the rare collaborations of anthropologist (Comaroff) and lawyer (Roberts), […]
This is the first collaborative book by an anthropologist and a lawyer since Karl Llewellyn and E. Adamson Hoebel wrote The Cheyenne Way forty years ago… It surpasses its illustrious predecessor in every way and immediately joins the select circle of indispensable anthropological studies of legal phenomena.
A work of impressive scholarship in which theoretical sophistication and ethnographic richness are convincingly matched.
This is an exciting but also frightening collection of articles. The central issue is how people in postcolonial Africa try to come to grips with ‘modernity’ – its premises and disappointments. The contributors come from the Africanist circle around Jean and John Comaroff at the University of Chicago, who have collaborated for some time…Together the […]
…a magnificent assembly of essays in which each effectively tackles the symbolic, historical, political, social, and economic forces that have continued to give life meaning in sub-Saharan Africa over the past century. As such this book should quickly establish itself as a landmark volume that finds a place of the shelves of all who are […]
In the best tradition of the rethinking genre of anthropological critiques, John and Jean Comaroff and this volume’s eight contributors brilliantly review the notion of civil society — largely developed and utilized by non-anthropologists – from both theoretical and ethnographically grounded perspectives. Beginning with an expansive introduction to the concept of civil society, or what […]
…this is a wonderful book for lovers of Southern African cultures, as well as for students of classic ethnography and visual culture. There is value in these photographs on a number of levels. They are valuable as data and as illustrations of Schapera’s studies. They have considerable historical importance for Botswana, as documented by Kgosi […]
These spectacular photographs reveal a much more complex Schapera than his writings allow and provide a more complete and aesthetically charming supplement to his work. The combination of clear, insightful, and entertaining scholarship – written by some of the foremost anthropologists of the region – and stunning photographs makes this a highly original and important […]
Isaac Schapera’s photographs magnificently capture everyday life among the Kgatla [chiefdom in the former Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana] at a period of great social change through a seemingly artless focus on artifacts and architecture, dress and deportment. In their introduction, Jean and John Comaroff – Schapera’s most outstanding successors – provide a scintillating and thought-provoking […]
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