Jean Comaroff was born on 22 July 1946 and is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University.
10 Facts About Jean Comaroff
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Jean Comaroff is an expert on the effects of colonialism on people in Southern Africa.
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Jean Comaroff has been a University faculty member since 1978.
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In collaboration with her husband John Comaroff, as well as on her own, Comaroff has written extensively on colonialism, and hegemony based on fieldwork conducted in southern Africa and Great Britain.
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Jean Comaroff serves as a member of the Editorial Collective of the journal Public Culture.
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Jean Comaroff was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, shortly after World War II.
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Jean Comaroff's mother was a convert to Judaism, born to a Lutheran German family that had emigrated to South Africa in the late nineteenth century.
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Dr Jean Comaroff's parents returned to South Africa when she was ten months old, settling in the highly segregated industrial town of Port Elizabeth.
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Jean Comaroff's mother was involved in community work, including running soup kitchens and night-school, and working with the elderly Jewish community.
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In late 1960s, she and her husband, anthropologist John Jean Comaroff moved to Great Britain to pursue a PhD in anthropology.