Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of
prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of
images and events as objects of analysis. These they mine for clues to
the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana
minds. They are themselves imagining the imagination of others, and they
do the job with characteristic aplomb....The first volume creates an
appetite for the second.--Sally Falk Moore, American Anthropologist