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Article: Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier
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- Anthropological Quarterly
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- April 1, 1999
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Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier. JOHN L. COMAROFF and JEAN COMAROFF. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997; 588 pp.
This is a thoughtful, and thought-provoking, sequel to the much-discussed Of revelation and revolution, Volume one: Christianity, colonialism, and consciousness in South Africa. While Volume One dealt primarily with the initial encounter between British evangelists and the Southern Tswana of South Africa, Volume Two moves the story along, both chronologically and thematically, to how, over the course of a century, the encounter reshaped both the Southern Tswana and the British. In the process the ...