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,Christian missionaries: “much that was distinctly heathenish”,and examine their general attitudes towards recreation. While most missionaries eventually accepted ‘European’ sports, Samoan pastimes were irremediably bound to ‘un-Christian’ practices such as lewd dancing, revelry and excess. This neat dichotomy was disrupted by Samoans’ adaptation of cricket int

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,Navigating colonialism in three contexts: “cricket assumed a political importance”,the period before partition. With the three powers jostling for position, Samoans used cricket and kirikiti both to resist foreign interference and to ‘perform’ loyalty to British or German interests. It then examines how Samoans adapted this method to German rule, where increasingly centralised pol