Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879-1939

• Main Author: Sacks, Benjamin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics,
• Subjects: Imperialism.; Islands of the Pacific-History.; Civilization-History.; Social history.; World politics.; Sports-Sociological aspects.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Australasian History.; Cultural History.; Social History.; Political History.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.

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 cate...