Publications

2018
The Politics of Custom: Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa
Jean Comaroff (Editor) John L. Comaroff. 3/2018. The Politics of Custom: Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa. University of Chicago Press.
2016
The Truth about Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order
John Comaroff (Author) Jean Comaroff (Author). 12/2016. The Truth about Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order. University of Chicago Press.
2011
Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa.
Comaroff J. & Comaroff, J. 2011. Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa.. Colorado, Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.
2009
Ethnicity Inc.
Comaroff J. & Comaroff, J. 2009. Ethnicity Inc.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Publisher's VersionAbstract
In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?
1991
J. Comaroff J. & Comaroff. 1991. Of Revelation and Revolution Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa.. Illinois, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1986
Roberts S. & Comaroff, John L. 1986. Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute in an African Context.. Illinois, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.