Talking up the game: Football and the reconstruction of Liberia, West Africa

Identities

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 471-494

  Armstrong, Gary ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnographic inquiry; Liberia; National integration; Rehabilitation; Sport

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; IDEOLOGY; NATIONAL IDENTITY; SPORT;

AFRICA; LIBERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 27644483775     PISSN: 1070289X     EISSN: 15473384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10702890214868     Document Type: Article

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