Abstract
Of Revelation and Revolution , Volume 2, explores how Nonconformists propagated the everyday practices of nineteenth-century British bourgeois society. When the southern Tswana found missionary words irrelevant, the missionaries set about remaking Tswana bodies, dress, and houses. The Comaroffs describe resistance to, and refashioning of, European practices. Their work has been central to the creation of a new and rich historiography of cultural hybridity in Africa. When the works of hybridity are aggregated, however, they contribute to a macrohistorical narrative grounded in Europe, not balanced by a comparable Africa-centered macronarrative. This article presents strategies which hold the promise of rectifying the imbalance.
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