Abstract
Horse racing was the first modern sporting practice in colonial Algeria (1830-1962). French cavalry officers encouraged the participation of indigenous elites as a means of inculcating values deemed to be favorable to the colonial project. This article proposes a discourse analysis of two race meetings in September 1852 with a view to establishing the institutional and ideological parameters of the process of sporting diffusion in the colonized territory.
| Translated title of the contribution | Nation and narration in sports diffusion: The example of horse races in colonial algeria |
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| Original language | French |
| Pages (from-to) | 625-632 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Ethnologie Francaise |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 20 Sep 2011 |
Keywords
- Algeria
- Diffusion
- Horse racing
- Narrative
- Sport