Football and Colonialism
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Nuno Domingos, Football and Colonialism
Football and Colonialism
Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique
Nuno Domingos
Foreword by Harry G. West
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A substantially different version was published in Portuguese as Futebol e colonialismo: Corpo e cultura popular em Moçambique by Imprensa de Ciências Sociais of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, 2012.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Domingos, Nuno, 1976– author.
Title: Football and colonialism : body and popular culture in urban Mozambique / Nuno Domingos ; foreword by Harry G. West.
Description: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2017] | Series: New African histories | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017018181| ISBN 9780821422618 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422625 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821445976 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Soccer—Mozambique—History. | Soccer—Social aspects—Mozambique. | Soccer—Political aspects—Mozambique. | Mozambique—Social life and customs.
Classification: LCC GV944.M85 D6613 2017 | DDC 796.33409679—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017018181
Contents
Foreword by Harry G. West
Chapter 1. Football and the Narration of a Colonial Situation
Chapter 2. A Colonial Sport’s Field
Chapter 3. Football and the Moral Economy of the Lourenço Marques Suburbs
Chapter 4. A Suburban Style of Play
Chapter 5. Witchcraft Practices in Football’s Symbolic Economy
Chapter 6. Sweetness and Speed Tactics as Disenchantment of the World
Chapter 7. Football Narratives and Social Networks in Late Colonial Mozambique