Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa v. 1

Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226114422 ISBN 13: 9780226114422

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1991

Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa v. 1 "Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis. These they mine for clues to the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana minds. They are themselves imagining the imagination of others, and they do the job with characteristic aplomb...The first... Full description

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"Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis. These they mine for clues to the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana minds. They are themselves imagining the imagination of others, and they do the job with characteristic aplomb....The first volume creates an appetite for the second."—Sally Falk Moore, American Anthropologist

About the Author:

Jean Comaroff is the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology and an Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University.