B.A at the University of Cape Town

Ph.D from the London School of Economics in 1973.

• John Comaroff was awarded the Anders Retzius Gold Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, presented by the King of Sweden, April 2007.

• Among his coauthored works, Of Revelation and Revolution, volume one, won the Laing Prize, and "Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neo-Liberalism," a special issue of Public Culture, won the Best Special Issue Award of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 2000.

• Some of his solo publications include:

  • The Meaning of Marriage Payments (1980).

  • Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute in an African Context (1981).

source:John Comaroff

Ethnicity, Inc. (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning),Law and Disorder in the Postcolony,Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute in an African Context.