Domingos, Nuno,  1976- <br/><br/>
Football and colonialism :  body and popular culture in urban Mozambique / 
Nuno Domingos ; foreword by Harry G. West. 
 - Athens :  Ohio University Press,  (c)2017. 
 - 1 online resource 
 - New African histories .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780821445976 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Soccer--History.--Mozambique<br/>Soccer--Social aspects--Mozambique.<br/>Soccer--Political aspects--Mozambique.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV944  / .F668 2017