 | Carol Appadurai Breckenridge - Social Science - 1995 - 276 pages
...divisive scars. Finally, though perhaps least consciously, cricket gives all these groups and actors the sense of having hijacked the game from its English...agency as well as competition, finance, and spectacle. If cricket did not exist in India, something like it would certainly have been invented for the conduct... | |
 | Arjun Appadurai - Civilization, Modern - 1996 - 252 pages
...divisive scars. Finally, although perhaps least consciously, cricket gives all these groups and actors the sense of having hijacked the game from its English...agency as well as competition, finance, and spectacle. lf cricket did not exist in lndia, something like it would certainly have been invented for the conduct... | |
 | Simon Coleman - Religion - 2000 - 280 pages
...in countries that were once part of the British Empire: 'Cricket gives all these groups and actors the sense of having hijacked the game from its English...agency as well as competition, finance, and spectacle.' 23 Some Pentecostalists were aware that many of their own ritual forms were derived from the United... | |
 | Paul Dimeo, James Mills - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 214 pages
...post-colonial generations of men cricket became a means of developing a national and a masculine identits. The appropriation of the game has been a self-consciously...agency as well as competition, finance and spectacle. ':' McDonald similarly finds that cricket has been a vehicle for the articulation and invention of... | |
 | Paul Dimeo, James Mills - Soccer - 2001 - 210 pages
...developing a national and a masculine identity. The appropriation of the game has been a self-consciouslv anti-colonial process, argues Appadurai, who concludes...into the colonies at the level of language, body, and agenci as well as competition, ftnance and spectacle.'" McDonald similarly finds that cricket has been... | |
 | James N. Rosenau - Political Science - 2003 - 460 pages
...excitement of Indianness without its many, divisive scars. . . . [It] gives all these groups and actors the sense of having hijacked the game from its English...agency as well as competition, finance, and spectacle." 73 The local absorption of globalizing dynamics, in short, can be thoroughgoing without being expressive... | |
 | Boria Majumdar, J. A. Mangan - Sports - 2005 - 368 pages
...generations, cricket became a means of developing a national and a masculine identity, and it thrived on a 'sense of having hijacked the game from its English...body and agency as well as competition, finance and spectacle'.28 Most recently, Ian McDonald has contended that cricket has indeed shaped postcolonial... | |
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Appadurai, who concludes that 'cricket gives ... the sense of having hijacked the game from its English habitus into the colonies at the level of language, body, and agency as well as competition, finance and spectacle. 