Jean Comaroff is Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.John L. Comaroff is Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. Their publications include Of Revelation and Revolution, vol. 1 (1991) and vol. 2(1997), as well as the edited collection Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa: Critical Perspectives (1999).

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