- These claims are informal. They represent opinions encountered and vim heard directly or via third parties in informal academic conversation (an influential, but little acknowleded source of knowledge). The reader must judge from own experience the accuracy of these claims. See also footnote 2
- Peel , J. Y.D. 1992 . “The Colonization of Consciousness' (review of . Of Revelation and Revolution), Journal of African History , 33 ( 2 ) : 328 On this criticism, see; N. Etherington, in ‘Of Revelation and Revolution’ (review), The International Journal of African Historical Studies 25, 1 (1992), 215, comments on certain areas of archival deficit. Another prominent strain in formal reviews is the criticism that Of Revelation and Revolution fails to account adequately for the experience, and the power, of religious change among the southern Tswana as a freely adopted force;and that the authors falsely equate religious experience with morality. See R. Elphick, ‘South African Christianity and the Historian's Vision’, South African Historical Journal, 26 (1992), 186–187;and R. Gray, ‘Of Revelation and Revolution’ (review), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 56, 1 (1993), 197–198
- Moore , S. F. 1992 . ‘Of Revelation and Revolution’ (review) . American Anthropologist , 94 ( 4 ) : 959 – 960 . A related criticism is that the dominant theme in the Comaroffs' argument relating to what S.F. Moore calls a ‘consensus/contestation axis' does not allow for much variation beyond what is a heavily foregrounded linguistic-semantic trope of paradox. See. See also J. Vincent, ‘Ethnography and the Historical Imagination' (review), Ethnohistory 40, 3 (1993), 468–470
- 1993 . Principled Positions: Postmodernism and the Rediscovery of Value 1 – 32 . London On the possibility of a ‘weak’ form of postmodernism which allows one to ‘argue without contradiction for social justice, democratic pluralism and radical humanism’, see Judith Squires's introduction to and the essays that follow
- Ethnography , 54 For example, in ‘Of Totemism and Ethnicity’,the authors talk of ‘modes of consciousness' with regard to totemism and ethnicity, as though each can be equated with different operations or states of ‘consciousness' as a presence or an identifiable mechanism. In this argument, ‘consciousness' is merely assumed, not theorised. However, the idea of ‘consciousness' is theorised by the authors elsewhere, principally in Of Revelation and Revolution, 27–30, and in 'The Colonization of Consciousness', Ethnography, 235–63. However, such theorisation stops well short of the posutructuralist debate on 'consciousness'. See also the discussion below
- Spivak , G. C. 1988 . “ ‘Introduction’ ” . In Selected Subaltern Studies 11 Oxford
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