Testimonials
John and Jean Comaroff’‘s intellectual influence has been immense. It is to be found in various areas of academic enquiry, from law, cultural studies, political economy to sociology, social studies of health and religion, arts and design…Their very significant intellectual influence and moral authority [has been] strenuously dedicated…to nurturing high quality scholarly communities. They brought […]
Ever since the 1980s John Comaroff has been one of my most cherished anthropologists. Together with his wife Jean, he served as guide into a new, global anthropology; that is, an anthropology that retains the classic assets of the discipline — fieldwork, micro ethnography, a focus on the articulation of material circumstances with cultural life […]
For decades, [Jean and John] Comaroff created generous and open intellectual and pedagogical environments in anthropology, in African studies, and across the academy more broadly, galvanizing energy wherever they go, and teaching us that there is no anthropology that is not already historical to the core, on the premise that we and those we study, […]
Few social scientists reach the status of contemporary classics. Jean and John Comaroff are among those who could be included in that category. Their current work is indeed on the crest of the wave of social analysis, but at least since the 1980s it has been followed, debated and also challenged within the field of […]
As a South African, I like to claim John Comaroff as one of our own in the light of his prodigious achievements in academic and general intellectual life. We first met when as a 15 year old member of a Jewish youth movement, I received lectures from him on Karl Marx. That said a lot […]
[John and Jean Comaroff] have an uncanny ability to take a seemingly local and banal subject, to convey truths about the times in which we live. Something they have done with witchcraft, crime, zombies, and the law. Unraveling both the fictions and force, the meanings and materialities, on which power is based. When the New […]
John and Jean Comaroff’‘s intellectual influence has been immense. It is to be found in various areas of academic enquiry, from law, cultural studies, political economy to sociology, social studies of health and religion, arts and design…Their very significant intellectual influence and moral authority [has been] strenuously dedicated…to nurturing high quality scholarly communities. They brought […]