Abstract
standing and the unease with master narratives and the dualisms they The Comaroffs' RRII is a complex work, possibly jarring to historians because of its rhetorical structure, but strongly neomodern. We identify a tension throughout the work between the desire for comprehensive underinevitably set up. This ambivalence, together with their brilliant exposition of the limits of the rationalist/modernist project and of course the very subject matter of the book, remind us of Weber. However, where Weber understood the capitalist ethic as a kind of resolution to contradictions raised by the Protestant 'revolution in revelation,' the Comaroffs attend to the rupture between the intended consequences of Protestantism and the actual consequences of capitalism as they unfolded in southern Africa.
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