A NATIONAL STRUGGLE: SENEGALESE WRESTLING AND CASAMANÇAIS SEPARATISM

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Autor(a) principal: Deets,Mark W.
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
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Resumo: 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 cultural separatism. This study of Senegalese wrestling history demonstrates that little about this traditional form of the sport is “traditional.” Rather, the form practiced in Senegalese stadiums today results from changes to earlier forms of the sport practiced in the precolonial era. I argue that although some separatists tried to form these cultural distinctions into a “discourse of grievance” against the Senegalese state, many ordinary Casamançais refused to link their communal cultural identity to the division and violence of separatism.
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title A NATIONAL STRUGGLE: SENEGALESE WRESTLING AND CASAMANÇAIS SEPARATISM
spellingShingle A NATIONAL STRUGGLE: SENEGALESE WRESTLING AND CASAMANÇAIS SEPARATISM
Deets,Mark W.
wrestling
nationalism
separatism
sport
Senegal
Casamance
title_short A NATIONAL STRUGGLE: SENEGALESE WRESTLING AND CASAMANÇAIS SEPARATISM
title_full A NATIONAL STRUGGLE: SENEGALESE WRESTLING AND CASAMANÇAIS SEPARATISM
title_fullStr A NATIONAL STRUGGLE: SENEGALESE WRESTLING AND CASAMANÇAIS SEPARATISM
title_full_unstemmed A NATIONAL STRUGGLE: SENEGALESE WRESTLING AND CASAMANÇAIS SEPARATISM
title_sort A NATIONAL STRUGGLE: SENEGALESE WRESTLING AND CASAMANÇAIS SEPARATISM
author Deets,Mark W.
author_facet Deets,Mark W.
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Deets,Mark W.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv wrestling
nationalism
separatism
sport
Senegal
Casamance
topic wrestling
nationalism
separatism
sport
Senegal
Casamance
description 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 cultural separatism. This study of Senegalese wrestling history demonstrates that little about this traditional form of the sport is “traditional.” Rather, the form practiced in Senegalese stadiums today results from changes to earlier forms of the sport practiced in the precolonial era. I argue that although some separatists tried to form these cultural distinctions into a “discourse of grievance” against the Senegalese state, many ordinary Casamançais refused to link their communal cultural identity to the division and violence of separatism.
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