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![Football and Colonialism, Domination and Appropriation: the Mozambican Case[1 [1] This essay is derived from a PhD project about the history of football in Mozambique during the colonial period, undertaken at the department of Anthropology and Sociology in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. As it is in its initial phase, the study lacks a deep empirical research, in particular regarding its ethnographic dimension. The logical sequence of facts as well as the development of interpretations based upon the debates that approach a theme such as this, remain weak. As such, I will strive to limit the essay to information and interpretations that, ideally, will make it possible to reach a coherent whole. There shall arise more questions than answers and the hypothesis will be greater than the conclusions. Some parts shall be left blank, although intuitions may suggest, occasionally, categorical answers. <!--${label: article.frontnotes.viewall}-->]](/na101/home/literatum/publisher/tandf/journals/covergifs/fsas20/cover.jpg)
Football and Colonialism, Domination and Appropriation: the Mozambican Case[1 [1] This essay is derived from a PhD project about the history of football in Mozambique during the colonial period, undertaken at the department of Anthropology and Sociology in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. As it is in its initial phase, the study lacks a deep empirical research, in particular regarding its ethnographic dimension. The logical sequence of facts as well as the development of interpretations based upon the debates that approach a theme such as this, remain weak. As such, I will strive to limit the essay to information and interpretations that, ideally, will make it possible to reach a coherent whole. There shall arise more questions than answers and the hypothesis will be greater than the conclusions. Some parts shall be left blank, although intuitions may suggest, occasionally, categorical answers. View all notes]
[1] This essay is derived from a PhD project about the history of football in Mozambique during the colonial period, undertaken at the department of Anthropology and Sociology in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. As it is in its initial phase, the study lacks a deep empirical research, in particular regarding its ethnographic dimension. The logical sequence of facts as well as the development of interpretations based upon the debates that approach a theme such as this, remain weak. As such, I will strive to limit the essay to information and interpretations that, ideally, will make it possible to reach a coherent whole. There shall arise more questions than answers and the hypothesis will be greater than the conclusions. Some parts shall be left blank, although intuitions may suggest, occasionally, categorical answers. View all notes
Abstract
This essay deals with the relationship between football and colonialism, examining the period when Mozambique was a Portuguese colony. An analysis of a glossary of local terms (in the Ronga language of the South of the country) is used to examine the tension between the mechanisms whereby the sport was introduced and its appropriation by the local people. The glossary describes game situations as was compiled in a journal article by the poet José Craveirinha in 1955.
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