Policing culture, cultural policing: Law and social order in postcolonial South Africa

Law and Social Inquiry

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 513-545

  Comaroff, John ^a   Comaroff, Jean ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346463504     PISSN: 08976546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430150     Document Type: Review

References (70)

1. Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso.
2. Appadurai, Arjun. 1990. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. Public Culture 2:1-24
3. Ashforth, Adam. 1990. The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
4. -. 2000. Madumo: A Man Bewitched. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
5. Auslander, Mark. 1993. "Open the Wombs!": The Symbolic Politics of Modern Ngoni Witchfinding. In Comaroff and Comaroff 1993.
6. Barolong boo Ratshidi. 1969-70. Court Records, Tribal Office, Mafikeng, South Africa.
7. Bloch, Maurice. 1989. Ritual, History, and Power: Selected Papers in Anthropology. London: Athlone Press.
8. Cape Argus. 1998a. Top Politicians for Witchcraft Summit. Cape Argus, 9 July.
9. -. 1998b. Occult-Related Killings on the Rise. Cape Argus, 7 September, p. 9.
10. Comaroff, Jean. 1985. Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
11. Comaroff, Jean, and John L. Comaroff. 1991. Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, Consciousness in South Africa, Vol. 1, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
12. -. 1993. Introduction. In Comaroff and Comaroff 1993.
13. -. 1999. Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony. American Ethnologist 26:279-301.
14. -. 2001. Millennial. Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming. In Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism, ed. Comaroff, Jean, and John L. Comaroff. Raleigh, N.C.: Duke University Press.
15. -. 2003. Reflections on Liberalism, Policulturalism, and ID-ology: Citizenship and Difference in South Africa. Social Identities 9:445-74.
16. -. Forthcoming. Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony. In Makers and Breakers, Made and Broken: Children And Youth as Emerging Categories in Postcolonial Africa, ed. Honwana, Alcinda, and Phillipe De Boeck.
17. Comaroff, Jean, and John L. Comaroff, eds. 1993. Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
18. Comaroff, John L. 1996. Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Politics of Difference in an Age of Revolution. In The Politics of Difference: Ethnic Premises in a World of Power, ed. McAllister Patrick and Edwin Wilmsen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
19. -. 2001. Law, Culture, and Colonialism: A Foreword. Law & Social Inquiry 26:101-10.
20. Comaroff, John L., and Jean Comaroff. 1997. Of Revelation and Revolution, vol. 2, The Dialectics of Modernity of a South African Frontier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
21. -. 2002. Ethnicity, Inc: On the Commodification, Consumption, and Incorporation of Cultural Identity in the Neoliberal Age. Lecture presented at Johann Wolfang Goethe University of Frankfurt, November.
22. -. Forthcoming. Criminal Justice, Cultural Justice: The Limits of Liberalism and the Pragmatics of Difference in the New South Africa. American Ethnologist.
23. Comaroff, John L., and Simon A. Roberts. 1981. Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute in an African Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
24. Cooper, Frederick, and Ann L. Stoler. 1997. Between Colony and Metropole: Rethinking a Research Agenda. In Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World, ed. Cooper Frederick and Ann L. Stoler. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
25. Corrigan, Philip, and Derek Sayer. 1985. The Great Arch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
26. Davidson, Basil. 1992. The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State. New York: Times Books.
27. Daily Mail and Guardian. 1999. Police Devil Busters Under Threat, 28 March, electronic ed.
28. Fields, Karen E. 1985. Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
29. Frow, John. 1997. Time and Commodity Culture: Essays on Cultural Theory and Postmodernity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
30. Gerhard, Gail M. 1978. Black Power in South Africa: The Evolution of an Ideology. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
31. Geschiere, Peter. 1997. The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
32. Gluckman, Max. 1959. The Magic of Despair. The Listener, 29 April. Republished in Gluckman, Max. 1963. Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa. London: Cohen and West.
33. Gluckman, Max. 1959. The Magic of Despair. The Listener, 29 April. Republished in Gluckman, Max. 1963. Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa. London: Cohen and West.
34. Harries, Patrick. 1994. Work Culture and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1860-1910. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann.
35. Harvey, David. 1990. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Oxford: Blackwell.
36. Hlongwa, Wonder. 1998. Witch-killing a Priority Crime. Mail and Guardian, 11-17 September, p. 2.
37. Islam, Faisal. 2001. Whatever Happened to Big Economics. Observer (London), 3 June 2001, business sec., p. 3.
38. Jones, G.I. 1951. Basutoland Medicine Murder: A Report on the Recent Outbreak of "Diretlo" Murders in Basutoland. London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office.
39. Junod, Henri Alexandre. 1927. Life of a South African Tribe. Vol. 2. 2d ed. London: Macmillan.
40. Khoza, Vusi, and Annie Mapoma. 1994. The Human Parts that Heal. Weekly Mail and Guardian, 12 September.
41. Kiley, Sam. 1997. SAPS Man Aims to Kill in His Role as Sangoma. Star, 7 August, p. 2.
42. Krog, Antjie. 1998. Country of My Skull. Johannesburg: Random House.
43. LaFontaine, Jean. 1997. Speak of the Devil: Allegations of Satanic Child Abuse in Contemporary England. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
44. Lewis, Ioan Myrddin. 1971. Ecstatic Religion: An Anthropological Study of Spirit Possession and Shamanism. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin.
45. Livingstone, David. 1857. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: J. Murray.
46. Lodge, Tom. 1983. Black Politics in South Africa Since 1945. London: Longman.
47. Mail. 1995. Murder Trial: Five Men Jailed for 100 Years. Mail, 22 September, p. 23.
48. Mamdani, Mahmood. 1996. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
49. Marwick, Max. 1965. Sorcery in its Social Setting: A Study of the Northern Cewa. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press.
50. Marx, Karl. 1976. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, trans. Ben Fowkes. Vol. 1. London: Penguin Books.
51. Mbembe, Achille. 1992. Provisional Notes on the Postcolony. Africa 62:3-37.
52. Meyer, Birgit. 1999. Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press.
53. Munn, Nancy D. 1986. The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) Society. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
54. Phalane, Charles. 1998. Indigenous Knowledge in Spotlight. Cape Argus, 9 September, p. 5.
55. Ralushai, N. V., M. G. Masingi, DM. M. Madiba, et al. 1996. Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Witchcraft Violence and Ritual Murders in the Northern Province of the Republic of South Africa (To: His Excellency The Honourable Member of the Executive Council for Safety and Security, Northern Province). N.p.
56. Richards, Audrey I. 1935. A Modern Movement of Witch-Finders. Africa 8:448-61.
57. Ritchken, E. Edwin. 1995. Leadership and Conflict in Bushbuckridge: Struggles to Define Moral Economics Within the Context of Rapidly Transforming Political Economics. M.A. thesis, Department of Political Science (Arts Faculty), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
58. Robins, Steven. 1998. The Truth Shall Make You Free? Reflections on the TRC. Southern Africa Report, August, pp. 9-13.
59. Saturday Argus. 1998. Residents Choose "Taxi Vigilantes" Over Police. Saturday Argus, 5-6 September, p. 8.
60. Schapera, Isaac. 1938. A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom. London: Oxford University Press.
61. Schapera, Isaac. 1970. The Crime of Sorcery. Proceedings of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1969:15-23.
62. - 1971. Rainmaking Rites of Tswana Tribes. Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum.
63. Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1996. Theft of Life: The Globalization of Organ Stealing Rumors. Anthropology Today 12(3):3-11.
64. Sharp, John S. 1998. "Non-racialism" and Its Discontents: A Post-Apartheid Paradox. International Social Science Journal 50:243-52.
65. Tambiah, Stanley J. 1985. Culture, Thought, and Social Action: An Anthropological Perspective. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
66. Walshe, Peter. 1971. The Rise of African Nationalism in South Africa: The African National Congress, 1912-1952. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
67. White, Luise. 1997. The Traffic in Heads: Bodies, Borders and the Articulation of Regional Histories. Journal of Southern African Studies 23:325-38.
68. Willoughby, William C. 1928. The Soul of the Bantu: A Sympathetic Study of the Magico-religious Practices and Beliefs of the Bantu Tribes of. Africa. New York: Doubleday.
69. Wilson, Monica. 1951. Witch Beliefs and the Social Structure. American Journal of Sociology 56:307-13.
70. Wright Lawrence. 1994. Remembering Satan. New York: Knopf.