Abstract
Rather than studying behaviours or ideas, this article examines the knowledge and the power systems that framed body practices in Cameroon from 1920 to 1960. It is above all a history of the ‘mechanisms’, in Foucault’s sense of the term; namely, a focus on a) the singular process of objectivation and subjectivation immanent in athletic institutional arrangements; b) the different rational ways in which the knowledge of sport and physical education is changed into body culture; and c) the forms of power rationalization which enable disciplinarization mechanisms, and then body control through physical and sporting activities.
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