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Author Domingos, Nuno, 1976- author.

Title Football and colonialism : body and popular culture in urban Mozambique / Nuno Domingos ; foreword by Harry G. West
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource
Series New African Histories
New African histories series.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 28, 2017)
Subject Soccer -- Mozambique -- History
Soccer -- Social aspects -- Mozambique
Soccer -- Political aspects -- Mozambique
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Manners and customs
Soccer
Soccer -- Political aspects
Soccer -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Mozambique -- Social life and customs
Subject Mozambique
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821445976
0821445979