Professor
John L. Comaroff
Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Scholar at Harvard University
Press News
In the spring of 2024, the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences offered a one-time faculty retirement option to all
Essays
Ethnicity, Inc.
In October 2000, Business Day, a leading South African newspaper, published an extraordinary story. Its
Figuring Democracy
12.01 a.m., 25 April 1994. Wale Street, Cape Town, South Africa: The last strains of
Foreward: Everyday State and Democracy in Africa
Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters, notable for both its timeliness and breadth