#  Jean Comaroff 

Faculty Associate (emerita). 

Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Emerita, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** The making and unmaking of colonial society; the nature of the postcolony; the late modern world viewed from the Global South; and southern Africa.





 

 

 





 

 

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