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Imagined Olympians: Body Culture and Colonial Representation in Rwanda
Imagined Olympians Body Culture and Colonial Representation in Rwanda
Author: John Bale
Observing the Rwandan cultural practice of gusimbuka, widely described as Tutsi high jumping, Europeans discerned a natural ability to jump and predicted that Tutsi would dominate world sports-or so the story goes. And, as John Bale makes clear in this book, it is just that-a story, a Western representation that recast cultural practice as compe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780816633869
ISBN-10: 081663386X
Publication Date: 3/12/2002
Pages: 312
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Book Type: Paperback
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