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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
ISBN-10
3030272672
ISBN-13
9783030272678
Edition
2019 ed.
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 21st, 2019
Print length
306 Pages
Weight
540 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 21.60 x 2.50 cms
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This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti.
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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