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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Oktober 2019
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
	Australasian & Pacific history / Australasian History / B / Civilization—History / Cultural History / History / History# specific events & topics / imperialism / Imperialism and Colonialism / Islands of the Pacific—History / Political History / Political science & theory / Social & cultural history / Social History / Sociology of Sport and Leisure / Sociology# sport & leisure / Sport Sociology / Sports—Sociological aspects / World Politics
ISBN:	9783030272678
EAN-Code:	9783030272678
Verlag:	Springer International Publishing
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
Dimensionen:	H 216 mm / B 153 mm / D 22 mm
Gewicht:	528 gr
Seiten:	320
Zus. Info:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
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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.