Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939 (1st ed. 2019) (Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics)

By: Benjamin Sacks

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783030272685
Related ISBNs:: 9783030272678
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 12/02/19
Copyrighted By:: Springer
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Sports, Australiana, Social Studies, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.