This dissertation treats the phenomenon of cross-national cultural diffusion and appropriation by examining the introduction and early development of British sport in two New World territories. The work considers the particularities of colonial and culturally 'imperialist' relationships by investigating the ways in which modern sports spread to and within a colonial possession, Trinidad, and a politically independent country, Brazil It goes on to examine the ways in which New World cultural consumers, originally dependent upon Old World cultural production, nationalized, or creolized, the sports they played. It traces this development by analyzing the changes in the sporting communities of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century metropolitan Trinidad and Brazil in three areas: institutionally, by examining the countries' sporting organizations, especially clubs; in the fluid relationship between locals and Britons and other foreigners; and in the games and sports themselves, in the evolution of 'national' styles of play and spectatorship. It concludes by focusing attention on the agency of Brazilians and Trinidadians in this process of cultural diffusion and development, as it was they who both embraced British sport and adopted it to local needs and tastes / acase@tulane.edu
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_27371 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Contributors | Bocketti, Gregg Philip (Author), MacLachlan, Colin M (Thesis advisor) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Access requires a license to the Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database., Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law |
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