Jean Comaroff

26.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
123 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Jean Comaroff is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Jean Comaroff has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 29 papers in Anthropology and 14 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Jean Comaroff's work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (17 papers), South African History and Culture (14 papers) and African cultural and philosophical studies (14 papers). Jean Comaroff is often cited by papers focused on Anthropological Studies and Insights (17 papers), South African History and Culture (14 papers) and African cultural and philosophical studies (14 papers). Jean Comaroff collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and United Kingdom. Jean Comaroff's co-authors include John Comaroff, Allen Isaacman, Sam C. Nolutshungu, Jan Vansina, Joan Vincent, Roy Willis, Lenore John, Harriet Ngubane, Peter Maguire and Blair Rutherford and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Jean Comaroff

118 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1 1985 2026 1998 2012 1991 2000 1991 1999 1985 250 500 750

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jean Comaroff United States 44 6.5k 4.4k 2.3k 780 693 123 11.4k
John Comaroff United States 45 6.2k 1.0× 4.0k 0.9× 2.3k 1.0× 655 0.8× 667 1.0× 121 10.8k
Marilyn Strathern United Kingdom 45 4.4k 0.7× 3.1k 0.7× 1.8k 0.8× 831 1.1× 888 1.3× 203 12.2k
Achille Mbembé South Africa 29 4.7k 0.7× 2.1k 0.5× 1.7k 0.8× 871 1.1× 359 0.5× 114 8.0k
James Clifford United States 24 6.0k 0.9× 3.1k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 923 1.2× 1.5k 2.2× 89 12.7k
Sherry B. Ortner United States 28 3.6k 0.5× 2.0k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 407 0.5× 454 0.7× 76 7.3k
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak United States 38 7.1k 1.1× 2.1k 0.5× 2.6k 1.2× 1.7k 2.2× 799 1.2× 181 13.9k
Dipesh Chakrabarty United States 26 4.4k 0.7× 1.9k 0.4× 2.2k 1.0× 478 0.6× 348 0.5× 118 9.1k
Akhil Gupta United States 21 4.2k 0.6× 2.1k 0.5× 2.5k 1.1× 282 0.4× 755 1.1× 41 7.3k
Ann Laura Stoler United States 30 4.4k 0.7× 2.3k 0.5× 1.7k 0.8× 250 0.3× 416 0.6× 76 7.9k
Walter D. Mignolo United States 40 5.3k 0.8× 2.2k 0.5× 2.4k 1.1× 2.7k 3.4× 795 1.1× 181 11.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Jean Comaroff

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jean Comaroff

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Comaroff, John & Jean Comaroff. (2023). Generationality: On Intergenerationality, Transgenerationality, and the ‘Generation War’. The Monist. 106(2). 165–180. 1 indexed citations
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Comaroff, Jean, Peter Geschiere, Kamari Maxine Clarke, & Adeline Masquelier. (2012). Portrait: Jean Comaroff. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 3(1). 5–34. 2 indexed citations
3.
Comaroff, Jean, et al.. (2012). Theory from the South: Or, how Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa. Anthropological Forum. 22(2). 113–131. 582 indexed citations breakdown →
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Comaroff, Jean, Peter Geschiere, Kamari Maxine Clarke, & Adeline Masquelier. (2012). Religion, Society, Theory. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 3(1). 4 indexed citations
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Comaroff, Jean & John Comaroff. (2012). Theory From the South: A Rejoinder. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 18 indexed citations
6.
Comaroff, Jean. (2009). The Politics of Conviction: Faith on the Neo-liberal Frontier. Social Analysis. 53(1). 45 indexed citations
7.
Schapera, I., et al.. (2007). Picturing a colonial past : the African photographs of Isaac Schapera. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 12 indexed citations
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Comaroff, Jean & John Comaroff. (2007). Law and disorder in the postcolony*. Social Anthropology. 15(2). 133–152. 383 indexed citations breakdown →
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Comaroff, Jean. (2006). Oltre la politica della nuda vita. L’AIDS e l’ordine neoliberista. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(8). 1 indexed citations
10.
Comaroff, John & Jean Comaroff. (2004). Policing Culture, Cultural Policing: Law and Social Order in Postcolonial South Africa. Law & Social Inquiry. 29(3). 513–545. 39 indexed citations
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Comaroff, Jean & John Comaroff. (2003). Ethnography on an Awkward Scale. Ethnography. 4(2). 147–179. 120 indexed citations
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Comaroff, Jean & John Comaroff. (2002). Naturalizando la nación: aliens, apocalipsis y el estado postcolonial. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations
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Comaroff, Jean & John Comaroff. (2002). Privatizing the Millennium: New Protestant Ethics and Spirits of Capitalism In Africa, and elsewhere. Africa Spectrum. 15(2). 293–312. 24 indexed citations
14.
Comaroff, Jean. (1997). Reading, Rioting, and Arithmetic: The Impact of Mission Education on Black Consciousness in South Africa. 19–63. 2 indexed citations
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Comaroff, Jean & John Comaroff. (1997). The dialectics of modernity on a South African frontier. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 37 indexed citations
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Comaroff, Jean. (1997). The Portrait of an Unknown South African: Identity in a Global Age. HIMALAYA. 4(1). 13. 4 indexed citations
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Comaroff, John, et al.. (1995). Ethnography and the Historical Imagination.. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 1(1). 207–207. 2 indexed citations
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Comaroff, Jean & John Comaroff. (1991). Christianity, colonialism, and consciousness in South Africa. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 51 indexed citations
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Comaroff, Jean. (1991). Missionaries and Mechanical Clocks: An Essay on Religion and History in South Africa. The Journal of Religion. 71(1). 1–17. 29 indexed citations
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Comaroff, Jean & Peter Maguire. (1981). Ambiguity and the search for meaning: Childhood leukaemia in the modern clinical context. PubMed. 15(2). 115–123. 98 indexed citations

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