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Karen E. Fields



Karen E. Fields, an independent scholar, holds degrees from Harvard University, Brandeis University, and the Sorbonne. She is the author of many articles and three published books: Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa, about millennarianism; Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir (with Mamie Garvin Fields), about life in the 20th-century South; and a retranslation of Emile Durkheim's masterpiece, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. ...more

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The Elementary Forms of Rel...

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Racecraft: The Soul of Ineq...

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Individuality and the Intel...

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“work among the Azande, yet as far from the Azande”
Karen E. Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

“Along that way, the sumptuary code shades into the peculiar American predicament of having multiple class resentments but no legitimate language for talking about class.”
Karen E. Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life



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