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Football and colonialism : body and popular culture in urban Mozambique /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Domingos, Nuno, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2017]
Series:New African histories series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.