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

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ISBN-10: 0226114414

ISBN-13: 9780226114415

Edition: 1991 (Annual)

Authors: Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff

List price: $147.00
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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
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Book details

List price: $147.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/9/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 434
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English

Jean and John L. Comaroff are Professors of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, Fellows ofthe Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, and Honorary Professors at the University of Cape Town. They are editors most recently of Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (University of Chicago Press 2006), and are currently working on a new book, Ethnicity, Inc.

List of Illustrations
Preface Chronology
Introduction
Preachers and Prophets The Domestication of the Sacred Word
Cultivation, Colonialism, and Christianity Toward a New African Genesis
Currencies of Conversion Of Markets, Money, and Value
Fashioning the Colonial Subject The Empire's Old Clothes
Mansions of the Lord Architecture, Interiority, Domesticity
The Medicine of God's Word Saving the Soul by Tending the Flesh
New Persons, Old Subjects Rights, Identities, Moral Communities
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index