Abstract

DOMINGOS, Nuno. The uses of the Portuguese football narrative in Maputo. Etnográfica [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.1, pp.163-183. ISSN 0873-6561.

This article researches the social uses in Maputo of what is here called the “narrative of Portuguese football”. The relation between the Portuguese populations in the capital of Mozambique with this narrative will be interpreted as a critical exam of the connection made between football as a particular consumption, taken as a characteristic of the national culture, and the existence of a Portuguese community. Represented as a homogenised whole this community reifies the logic of a national history. In Maputo’s case, however, the study of Portuguese football allows not only to ­confront the homogenising discourse on national communities but also to question that transnational community called lusophone, which gathers a group of countries supposedly united by a cultural heritage.

Keywords : football; leisure; narratives; social rituals; communities; colonialism.

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