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Record Nr.

UNISA996248192403316

Autore

Comaroff Jean

Titolo

Of revelation and revolution, volume 1 [[electronic resource] ] : Christianity, colonialism, and consciousness in South Africa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, IL, : University of Chicago Press, 2008

ISBN

9786611430719

1-281-43071-4

0-226-11447-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (438 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ComaroffJohn L

Disciplina

303.48/241/00899639775

303.4824100899639775

Soggetti

History

London Missionary Society

Missions

Social conditions

Tswana (African people)

Tswana (African people) - History

Tswana (African people) - Missions

Tswana (African people) - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

OF REVELATION AND REVOLUTION; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Preface; Chronology; ONE INTRODUCTION; TWO BRITISH BEGINNINGS: Spirits of an Age, Signs of the Times; THREE AFRICA OBSERVED: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination; FOUR AFRICAN WORLDS: Economy, Culture, and Society, circa 1800-1830; FIVE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: HeroicJourneys, First Encounters; SIX CONVERSION AND CONVERSATION: Narrative, Form, and Consciousness; SEVEN SECULAR POWER, SACRED AUTHORITY: The Politics of the Mission; EIGHT CONCLUSION; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

""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