The discourse of rights in colonial South Africa: Subjectivity, sovereignty, modernity

Identities, Politics, and Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 193-236

  Comaroff, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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