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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Domingos, Nuno, 1976- author.

Series:

New African histories series

New African histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--Mozambique--History.

Soccer.

Soccer--Social aspects--Mozambique.

Soccer--Political aspects--Mozambique.

Soccer--Political aspects.

Soccer--Social aspects.

History.

Mozambique--Social life and customs.

Mozambique.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2017]

Summary:

In articles for the newspaper O brado africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist Jose Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own expressive ends. Through gesture, footwork, and patois, they used what Craveirinha termed "malice"-or cunning-to negotiate their places in the colonial state. "These manifestations demand a vast study," Craveirinha wrote, "which would lead to a greater knowledge of the black man, of his problems, of his clashes with European civilization, in short, to a thorough treatise of useful and instructive ethnography." In Football and Colonialism, Nuno Domingos accomplishes that study. Ambitious and meticulously researched, the work shows how local performances and popular culture practices became sites of an embodied history of Mozambique. The work will break new ground for scholars of African history and politics, urban studies, popular culture, and gendered forms of domination and resistance. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821422618

0821422618

9780821422625

0821422626

OCLC:

959264986