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Sports in Africa, past and present / edited by Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur, Gerard Akindes.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Cleveland, Todd, editor.
Kaur, Tarminder, editor.
Akindes, Gerard, editor.
ProQuest ebook central.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sports--Social aspects--Africa.
Sports.
Sports--Africa--History.
Sports--Sociological aspects.
History.
Sports--Social aspects.
Africa.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
Athens : Ohio University Press, 2020.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Introduction: More Than Just Games / Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur, and Gerard Akindes
Reflections on Pathways to the Writing of South African Sport History / Albert Grundlingh and Sebastian Potgieter
The Final Frontier: African Sports Studies in the Classroom / Todd Cleveland
African Sport in the Liberal Arts Classroom / Matt Carotenuto
On Teaching South African Sports History at a U.S. University / Peter Alegi
"The Gist of the [Game] Is Played Out on the Edges of the Cricket Boundary" : The History of an Indian Cricket Team in Africa, 1934-95 / Trishula Patel
Nigeria, Women's Football, and Resisting the Second Fiddle / Chuka Onwumechili and Jasmin M. Goodman
Beyond South Africa's Draconian Racial Segregation: Transkeian Surfing Narratives, 1966-94 / David Drengk
Racing out of the Shadows: Black Competitive Cycling in Johannesburg and Cape Town, c.1900-1964 / Todd Leedy
English Premier League Football Kiosks and the Emergence of Communal Television Viewing as a Sporting Practice: The Case of Eldoret, Kenya / Solomon Waliaula
The Gambling Games: "Unorganized Structure" of South African Soccer / Tarminder Kaur
African Footballers' Migration to Europe: Shifting Perspectives and Practices / Ernest Acheampong, Michel Raspaud, and Malek Bouhaouala
Post-career Precarity: Occupational Challenges among Former West African Footballers in Northern Europe / Christian Ungruhe and Sine Agergaard
Black Physical Culture and Weightlifting in South Africa / Francois Cleophas
Sprinting Past the End of Empire: Seraphino Antao and the Promise of Sport in Kenya, 1960-64 / Michelle Sikes
Rugby Transformation as Alibi: Thoughts on Craven and Coetzee / Derek Catsam
No Place of Honor: The Erosion of Historical Space and Place within the Kimberley Rugby Narrative / Mark Fredericks
The Gift of a Running Shoe: Heritage and the Comrades Marathon House / Marizanne Grundlingh.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9780821446966
0821446967
Publisher Number:
40030120910
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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