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  title info:
    title: Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879-1939
  name:
    name part: Sacks, Benjamin.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 306 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: an English game, a Samoan contest -- 2. Transcultural adoption in Samoa (and in sport) -- 3. From cricket to kirikiti -- 4. Colonial officials: play halted "in the interests of industry and progress" -- 5. Christian missionaries: "much that was distinctly heathenish" -- 6. Colonists, 'afakasi and military men: sundries on 'the Beach' -- 7. Navigating colonialism in three contexts: "cricket assumed a political importance" -- 8. Navigating New Zealand colonialism: "more interested in cricket than in Samoan politics" -- 9. Conclusion: sporting contest at the edges of empire.
  note: by Benjamin Sacks.
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
  subject:
    topic: Islands of the Pacific-History
  subject:
    topic: Civilization-History
  subject:
    topic: Social history
  subject:
    topic: World politics
  subject:
    topic: Sports-Sociological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism and Colonialism
  subject:
    topic: Australasian History
  subject:
    topic: Cultural History
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: Political History
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Sport and Leisure
  classification: JV61-152
  classification: 325.3
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
  identifier: 9783030272685
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27268-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 191010
    record change date: 20191027151258.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-27268-5