Titlebook: Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939; Benjamin Sacks Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exc

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,Colonial officials: play halted “in the interests of industry and progress”,on showed little appetite or capability for proscription, their successors after 1920 aimed to reshape Samoan society—including by targeting ‘inefficient’ practices such as kirikiti. As such, official antipathy towards kirikiti was remarkably consistent throughout the period of study—even if their reasons for opposing it were subtly different.

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Book 2019with 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, soldie

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i to confirm their ties to the foreign and Samoan communities respectively. Finally, Anglophone military men saw both cricket and kirikiti as an escape from boredom. These contrasting responses illustrate how the cricket pitch was a site of real and symbolic contest in Samoa—including . the broad category of ‘colonisers’.

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Wertkonflikte als kulturelle Konfliktege it presents is clearly instructive in other contexts. The chapter therefore shows how several arguments developed in the book—notably a less dichotomous view of ‘coloniser/colonised’ interactions and a refined model of how sporting practices spread and change—can advance and enrich the fields of sport and imperial history.

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Book 2019 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.

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