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

• Autore: Comaroff Jean
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, IL, : University of Chicago Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (438 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/241/00899639775; 303.4824100899639775
• Soggetto topico: History; London Missionary Society; Missions; Social conditions; Tswana (African people); Tswana (African people) - History; Tswana (African people) - Missions; Tswana (African people) - Social conditions
• Altri autori: ComaroffJohn L
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1
• ISBN: 9786611430719; 1-281-43071-4; 0-226-11447-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248192403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno