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J. Comaroff
Harvard University
United States

Jean Comaroff — PhD, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology



J. Comaroff
Harvard University
United States

John Comaroff — PhD, Formerly Harold H. Swift Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Chicago; Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Scholar



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