Biographical note: Jean und John L. Comaroff lehrten von 1978 bis zum Sommer 2012 Anthropologie an der University of Chicago. Im Herbst wechseln sie an die Harvard University auf Professuren für African und African American Studies sowie Anthropologie, die sie als Oppenheimer Research Fellows innehaben werden. Außerdem sind sie Honorarprofessoren an der University of Cape Town in Südafrika.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Editorial Note -- Part One: Theory, Ethnography, Historiography -- 1 Ethnography and the Historical Imagination -- 2 Of Totemism and Ethnicity -- 3 Bodily Reform as Historical Practice -- Part Two: Dialectical Systems, Imaginative Sociologies -- 4 The Long and the Short of It -- 5 Goodly Beasts, Beastly Goods -- 6 The Madman and the Migrant -- Part Three: Colonialism and Modernity -- 7 Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience -- 8 Medicine, Colonialism, and the Black Body -- 9 The Colonization of Consciousness -- 10 Homemade Hegemony -- Bibliography -- About the Book and Authors -- Index.
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ch 1. Theory from the south -- ch 2. On personhood : a perspective from Africa -- ch 3. Liberalism, policulturalism, and ID-ology : thoughts on citizenship and difference -- ch 4. Nations with/out borders : the politics of being and the problem of belonging -- ch 5. Figuring democracy : an anthropological take on African political modernities -- ch 6. History on trial : memory, evidence, and the forensic production of the past -- ch 7. Alien-nation : zombies, immigrants, and millennial capitalism -- ch 8. Beyond bare life : AIDS, (bio)politics, and the neo world order.
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In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the collateral damage of war they take readers into the disorder of the late modern world. Looking at recent transformations in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance that have led to an era where crime and policing are ever more complicit, they offer a powerful meditation on the new forms of sovereignty, citizenship, class, race, law, and political economy of representation that have arisen. To do so, the Comaroffs draw on their vast knowledge of South Africa, especially, and its struggle to build a democracy founded on the rule of law out of the wreckage of long years of violence and oppression. There they explore everything from the fascination with the supernatural in policing to the extreme measures people take to prevent home invasion, drawing illuminating comparisons to the United States and United Kingdom. Going beyond South Africa, they offer a global criminal anthropology that attests to criminality as the constitutive fact of contemporary life, the vernacular by which politics are conducted, moral panics voiced, and populations ruled.
