A NATIONAL STRUGGLE: SENEGALESE WRESTLING AND CASAMANÇAIS SEPARATISM

Abstract This paper examines the history of Senegalese wrestling to show how and why separatists from Senegal’s southern Casamance region used distinctions between Senegalese “traditional” wrestling and Casamançais “pure” wrestling to stake a claim to territorial separatism based on claims of cultur...

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Main Author: Deets,Mark W. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1645-37942021000200081
Country:Portugal
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