Between 1976 and 2010, Alan Macfarlane, a professor in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University, conducted a series of interviews with anthropologists from around the world. Two of those anthropologists included John and Jean Comaroff. They discussed their early lives, their work in the field, life under the Apartheid regime and anthropology, among other things.
Category: Ethnicity
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Ethnicity, Inc., translated into Chinese
CAMBRIDGE, MA – A Chinese translation of John L. and Jean Comaroff’s pathbreaking Ethnicity, Inc., is underway and expected to be issued later this year. First published in 2009 by the University of Chicago Press in the USA and by the University of the Witwatersrand Press in South Africa, the book has been praised for charting a new field of research in the social sciences, and for having a field-altering effect on the study of ethnic identity. “The study of ethnicity and indeed of neoliberalism will never be the same after the publication of this book, ” anthropologist Keith Hart commented in the American Anthropologist. Matti Bunzl, Director of the Wien Museum in Austria, noted, ““The Comaroffs are among the very finest anthropologists working anywhere in the world today. As genuine leaders of the discipline, every new book they publish is an event, and this one is no exception. Ethnicity, Inc. will be a watershed for anyone looking for new ways to explain our neoliberal world. This extraordinarily lucid book is one of the most ambitious, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking pieces of anthropological scholarship written over the past few decades…”
Ethnicity, Inc. has already been translated into Spanish and Polish, and excerpted in a Czech publication. The University of Chicago Press has now issued a translation license to Rive Gauche Publishing House, via Andrew Nurnberg Associates International Ltd., for a “complex Chinese-language edition.”
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Lecture: The Invasive Other
Sponsored by The New School, this conference is grounded in the premise that while seemingly of different orders, invasive others — whether people, plants, ideas, or pathogens — are described in similar ways and are patrolled and controlled through similar technologies, logics, and policies. The conference explores the way the language and technologies intersect and play off one another. By placing these different “invasives” alongside one another, we will learn more about the nature of Otherness in our world and how it is managed, governed, or eliminated. If we are to protect the rights of others, this knowledge is invaluable.
PEOPLE Q&A
Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration and Citizenship; Deputy Director of COMPAS Oxford University
Jean Comaroff, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University
Juanita Sundberg, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
Ann Laura Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and History, The New School
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Interview with John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff
Between 1976 and 2010, Alan Macfarlane, a professor in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University, conducted a series of interviews with anthropologists from around the world. Two of those anthropologists included John and Jean Comaroff. They discussed their early lives, their work in the field, life under the Apartheid regime and anthropology, among other things.