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Football and colonialism : body and popular culture in urban Mozambique / Nuno Domingos ; foreword by Harry G. West.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New African historiesPublication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821445976
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GV944 .F668 2017
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Contents:
A colonial sport's field -- Football and the moral economy of the Lourenço Marques suburbs -- A suburban style of play -- Witchcraft practices in football's symbolic economy -- Sweetness and speed : tactics as disenchantment of the world -- Football narratives and social networks in late colonial Mozambique -- Embodied history.
Subject: In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist Jos#65533; Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Louren#65533;o Marques (now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own expressive ends.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Football and the narration of a colonial situation -- A colonial sport's field -- Football and the moral economy of the Lourenço Marques suburbs -- A suburban style of play -- Witchcraft practices in football's symbolic economy -- Sweetness and speed : tactics as disenchantment of the world -- Football narratives and social networks in late colonial Mozambique -- Embodied history.

In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist Jos#65533; Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Louren#65533;o Marques (now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own expressive ends.

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