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Autore: | Comaroff John L |
Titolo: | Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2 [[electronic resource] ] : The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier |
Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (614 p.) |
Disciplina: | 303.48/241/00899639775 |
303.48241068 | |
Soggetto topico: | Tswana (African people) |
Altri autori: | ComaroffJean |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Chronology; 1 Introduction; 2 Preachers and Prophets: The Domestication of the Sacred Word; 3 Cultivation, Colonialism, and Christianity: Toward a New African Genesis; 4 Currencies of Conversion: Of Markets, Money, and Value; 5 Fashioning the Colonial Subject: The Empire's Old Clothes; 6 Mansions of the Lord: Architecture, Interiority, Domesticity; 7 The Medicine of God's Word: Saving the Soul by Tending the Flesh; 8 New Persons, Old Subjects: Rights, Identities, Moral Communities; 9 Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | In the second of a proposed three-volume study, John and Jean Comaroff continue their exploration of colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. Moving beyond the opening moments of the encounter between the British Nonconformist missions and the Southern Tswana peoples, Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume II, explores the complex transactions-both epic and ordinary-among the various dramatis personae along this colonial frontier.The Comaroffs trace many of the major themes of twentieth-century South African history back to these formative encounters. The rel |
Titolo abbreviato (Periodici): | Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2 |
OF REVELATION AND REVOLUTION, 2 | |
Altri titoli varianti: | Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume II |
Titolo autorizzato: | Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2 |
ISBN: | 0-226-11444-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996248051103316 |
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