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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wasteful and disruptive, even if colonial rivalries sometimes modulated their opposition. After partition, commercial and ideological factors meant officials in German Samoa sought to regulate the game, albeit not always rigorously or consistently. Such efforts were also evident in the US-controlled

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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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reign ancestry, known locally as ‘.; and the naval and armed forces who visited or were stationed at Samoa. Even more than foreign officials, white colonists understood kirikiti as a menace to their prospects of commercial success. . men and women, conversely, used both ‘English’ cricket and kirikit