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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
This new book by the well-known anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff explores the global preoccupation with criminality in the early twenty-first century,
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This book investigates the literary imaginings of the postcolonial city through the lens of crime in texts set in Naples and Mumbai from the 1990s to the presen
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The essays in this important new collection explore the diverse, unexpected, and controversial ways in which the idea of civil society has recently entered into
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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-