| Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville Contributor(s): Martin, Phyllis (Author), Phyllis, Martin (Author), Anderson, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521524466 ISBN-13: 9780521524469 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $41.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: In this book, Phyllis Martin, a well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of African research: the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in colonial Brazzaville and based on a wide variety of written sources and interviews, investigates recreational activities from football and fashion to music, dance and night life. In it, she brings out the ways in which these activities built social networks, humanised daily life and forged new identities, and explains how they ultimately helped to remake older traditions and values with new cultural forms. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - Sports & Recreation |
| Dewey: 790.013 |
| Series: African Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.08" W x 9.2" (1.01 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |