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LEISURE AND SOCIETY IN COLONIAL BRAZZAVILLE
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| By: |
Phyllis M. Martin, David Anderson, Carolyn Brown |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521524466 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521524469 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
24 June, 2002 |
| Series: |
African Studies No. 87 |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
This book is the first comprehensive study of leisure in an African colonial city. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
6 b/w illus. 6 maps 4 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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