Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa (Of Revelation & Revolution) - Hardcover

Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226114414 ISBN 13: 9780226114415

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1991

Synopsis

"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 this title

From the Back Cover

This is a study of the colonization of consciousness and the consciousness of colonization in South Africa.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0226114414
• ISBN 13: 9780226114415
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 434