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Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 296

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: August 08, 2002

ISBN: 0521524466

ISBN 13: 9780521524469

Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville

3.1/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 296

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: August 08, 2002

ISBN: 0521524466

ISBN 13: 9780521524469

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