1. See J. and J. Comaroff,Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa, vol. 1 (Chicago, 1991), 15.See also M. de Certeau,The Writing of History, trans. T. Conley (New York, 1988);D. LaCapra,Soundings in Critical Theory(Ithaca, 1989)
2. See below and K. Fields,Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa(Princeton, 1985)
3. See Comaroff and Comaroff,Of Revelation and Revolution, 26;C.C. Crais,White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-Industrial South Africa: The Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770–1865(Cambridge, 1991)
4. This problem is particularly pronounced in the chapter entitled ‘Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Xhosa Cattle-Killing’