UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER |
DAY WITH THE COMAROFFS -- MARCH 29, 1996
A reminder that John and Jean Comaroff will be coming
to spend a day discussing their work with Penn's African
Studies graduate students and faculty:
The Comaroffs have told us they are excited about coming
and about this unique opportunity. So that all of
you can get excited also, here is a list of the panels
that will be held that day, with suggested reading
lists for each panel. A message will be forthcoming
about the availability of the readings.
For further information, please contact Wendi Haugh,
whaugh@sas.
PANEL 1: Boundaries, Realities, and the Politics of
Dispute (John Comaroff)
1975 "Talking Politics: Oratory and Authority
in a Tswana Chiefdom" In M.Bloch (ed), _Political
Language and Oratory in Traditional Societies_ London
& New York: Academic Press.
1981 _Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute
in an African Context_ (especially cpts. 1, 5-8) [with
S.A. Roberts] Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1994 "Forward" in M. Lazarus-Black and
S.F. Hirsch (eds.) _Contested States: Law, Hegemony,
and Resistance_ New York: Routledge.
1995 "The Discourse of Rights in Colonial South
Africa:
Subjectivity, Sovereignty, Modernity. In A. Sarat
and T.R. Kearns (eds.), _Identities, Politics, and
Rights_ Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
PANEL 2: Healing the Body (Jean Comaroff)
1982 "Medicine, Symbol, and Ideology"
in _The Problem of Medical Knowledge_ (eds) P.
Wright and A. Treacher. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press
1985 _Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture
and History
of a South African People_ (especially cpts. 1 &
7). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1993 "The Diseased Heart of Africa: Medicine,
Colonialism, and the Black Body" in S. Lindenbaum
and M. Lock (eds.) _Knowledge, Power, and Practice:
The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life_ Berkeley:
University of California Press.
PANEL 3: Regimes of Value and Capitalist Expansions
1987 "The Madman and the Migrant: Work and
Labor in the Historical Consciousness of a South
African People" _American Ethnologist_ 14 (2):191-209.
1990 "Goodly Beasts and Beastly Goods: Cattle
in Tswana Economy and Society" _American Ethnologist_,
17(2):195-216.
1994 "The Empire's Old Clothes" (presented
at ethnohistory seminar
at the University of Pennsylvania)
1996 "Currencies of Conversion" in Of Revelation
and Revolution, v2
PANEL 4: Conversion/Consciousness/Colonialism
1986 "Christianity and Colonialism in South
Africa" _American Ethnologist_, 13(1):1-22.
1989 "The Colonization of Consciousness in South
Africa" _Economy and Society_, 18(3):267-95.
1991 _Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism,
and Consciousnes in South Africa, v1_ (especially cpts.
1 & 6) Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1992 "Introduction" to _Modernity and Its
Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Africa_ Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
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From: africa@sas.upenn.edu (U.Penn African Studies) Message-Id: <199602231825.NAA04324@mail2.sas.upenn.edu Subject: Comaroff panels and readings Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 13:25:29 -0500 (EST)
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