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...

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.