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Author Rollason, Will.

Title We Are Playing Football : Sport and Postcolonial Subjectivity, Panapompom, Papua New Guinea
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011

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Description 1 online resource (260 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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 ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Soccer -- Papua New Guinea -- Panapompom Island -- History
Soccer -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea -- Panapompom Island
Soccer -- Papua New Guinea -- Panapompom Island -- Sociological aspects
Men -- Papua New Guinea -- Panapompom Island -- Psychology
Melanesians -- Papua New Guinea -- Panapompom Island -- Psychology
Melanesians -- Papua New Guinea -- Panapompom Island -- Social life and customs
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Sociology of Sports.
Melanesians -- Psychology
Melanesians -- Social life and customs
Men -- Psychology
Soccer
Soccer -- Social aspects
Soccer -- Sociological aspects
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Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010671420
ISBN 9781443826174
1443826170
9786613141897
6613141895
1283141892
9781283141895