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Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879-1939

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Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics

ISBN: 3030272702
ISBN 13: 9783030272708
Autor: Sacks, Benjamin
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xi, 306 S., 1 s/w Illustr., 4 farbige Illustr., 306 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.10.2020
Auflage: 1/2020
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: Kartoniert

This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti. Starting with cricket’s introduction to the islands in 1879, it uses both cricket and kirikiti to trace six decades of contest between and within the categories of ‚colonisers‘ and ‚colonised.‘ How and why did Samoans adapt and appropriate the imperial game? How did officials, missionaries, colonists, soldiers and those with mixed foreign and Samoan heritage understand and respond to the real and symbolic challenges kirikiti presented? And how did Samoans use both games to navigate foreign colonialism(s)? By investigating these questions, Benjamin Sacks suggests alternative frameworks for conceptualising sporting transfer and adoption, and advances understandings of how power, politics and identity were manifested through sport, in Samoa and across the globe.

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Benjamin Sacks is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.

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