We Are Playing Football: Sport and Postcolonial Subjectivity, Panapompom, Papua New Guinea
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Main Author: Rollason, Will (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub. 2011
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
Item Description:TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON LANGUAGE; PART ONE; PROLOGUE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART TWO; PREAMBLE; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART THREE; PREAMBLE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; REFERENCES; INDEX.
Sport is an important part of the lives of rural Papua New Guineans, and a significant connection to global imaginaries for economically marginal villagers. Such grassroots sport, however, is rarely studied and has never previously been the subject of an ethnographic monograph. This book represents a pioneering study of the history and effects of grassroots sport in Papua New Guinea. We Are Playing Football explores Panapompom people's attempts to recreate the international game, and the soc ..
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:260 pages
ISBN:9781443826174
1443826170
9781443825894
1443825891

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