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Cricket, kirikiti and imperialism in Samoa, 1879-1939

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  • Other Name

    Palgrave studies in sport and politics (Series)

  • Description

    "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."--publisher information.

  • Place
    Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom
  • Other Id

    GV928.S3 SAC (Library of Congress Call Number)

    91581 (Cat ID)

    91386 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    Cricket, kirikiti and imperialism in Samoa, 1879-1939
  • Other Name

    Palgrave studies in sport and politics (Series)

  • Primary Maker

     Benjamin Sacks

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Palgrave Macmillan
  • Place
    Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom
  • Date
    2019
  • Physical Description

    1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 21 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9783030272678
    3030272672

    2365998X
  • Language
    English
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category

    Samoa--Politics and government

    Samoa--Social life and customs

  • Content
    Introduction: an English game, a Samoan contest -- Transcultural adoption in Samoa (and in sport) -- From cricket to kirikiti -- Colonial officials: play halted ?in the interests of industry and progress? -- Christian missionaries: ?much that was distinctly heathenish? -- Colonists, ?afakasi and military men: sundries on ?the Beach? -- Navigating colonialism in three contexts: ?cricket assumed a political importance? -- Navigating colonialism in three contexts: ?cricket assumed a political importance? -- Navigating New Zealand colonialism: ?more interested in playing cricket than in Samoan politics? -- Conclusion: sporting contest at the edges of empire
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: Cricket--History--19th century--Samoa; Cricket--Pacific Islands]

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

  • Subject Notes
    Benjamin Sacks is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.
  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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