The Closed Society and Its Critics
Historical transformations in African ethnography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2465671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Comaroff (University of Chicago, corresponding author), John L Comaroff |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 571-583 |
| Publication date | 1984-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1984.11.3.02a00100 |
| OpenAlex | W2053707732 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 8 |
The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600-1900. LEE V. CASSANELLI.The Political Economy of West African Agriculture. KEITH HART.The Past in the Present: History, Ecology, and Cultural Variation in Highland Madagascar. CONRAD PHILLIP KOTTAK.Wives for Cattle: Bridewealth and Marriage in Southern Africa. ADAM KUPER
Aesthetics · Ethnography · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Philosophy
Marxist and Structural Marxist Perspectives of Hunter-Gatherers
Falling Through the ‘Savage Slot’
Whose Ethics? Which Cultural Contract? Imagining Arrernte Traditions Today
On Recent Trends in the Anthropology of Foragers
Concepts of Process in Social Science Explanations
Connecting Bodies
Boy-Wives and Female Husbands
Explaining the Present
The Ethnographic Present
The rise of the north-western Tswana kingdoms
Manoeuvres and debates in the interpretation of land rights in Botswana
Urban History, Culture and Urban Ethnography
Islands in the Pacific
The Decolonization of Consciousness
History and hierarchy in hunter-gatherer studies
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2015 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |