Celebrating Cricket
The symbolic construction of Caribbean politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2465345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank E Manning (Western University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 616-632 |
| Publication date | 1981-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1981.8.3.02a00120 |
| OpenAlex | W2146202746 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 17 |
Cricket festivals are Bermuda's major public celebrations, aside from Christmas. This paper examines their social history, their carnivalesque character, and a prominent ancillary activity, gambling. It is proposed that these festivals symbolically depict both a reflexive, assertive sense of black culture and a stark awareness of black economic dependency on whites-a dramatic tension that is also the semantic context of Bermudian politics. Festival is thus a metaphorical map of the political system, a contention that appears generalizable to the Caribbean. [festival, politics, cricket, Caribbean, symbolic/cognitive analysis
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Carnivalesque · Context (archaeology · Cricket · Literature · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Romance · Sociology · The Symbolic · Anthropology · Digital Games and Media · Gender Studies · History · Law · Media Influence and Health · Psychology · Sports, Gender, and Society
Sport, Anthropology of
Civic Dramaturgy and World-Making
History, Structure, and Ritual
Identity, Culture and Politics
Towards Social Leverage of Sport Events
Toward a Distinctive Sport Management Discipline
Sport, Cultural Politics and International Relations
Tradition, transformation and taboo
Modern Sport, Middle Classes and Globalization in the Post-War Caribbean 1945–1952
Democratization Revisited
Participating in the World Gymnaestrada
Masochism, Spectacle, and the “Broken Mirror” Clown Entrée
Caribbean Cricket
Just cricket
The ‘will to civilization’ and its encounter with laissez‐faire
Fostering the social utility of events
The show must go on
"Playing Ball in a Black and White "Field of Dreams
Ganienkeh
Cricket Ethics and Indo-Xhosa Ethnics
The growth of the modern West Indies
The plural society in the British West Indies
Afro-American Anthropology
The reversible world
Festivals of the Calendar in St. Lucia
Carnival in Nineteenth Century Trinidad
West Indian Cricket—A Socio-Historical Appraisal
Cross-Cultural Correlates of Games of Chance
The Cultural Pattern of Indian Civilization
Child Training and Game Involvement
Closed Systems and Open Minds
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
The Trinidad Carnival. Mandate for a National Theatre
Games in Culture
Crab Antics
Political Symbolism
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,49 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2025 (41) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |