Partial knowledge: Photographic mystifications and constructions of "the African athlete"

Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 95-115

  Bale, John ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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