{"product_id":"gridiron-capital-9781478018094","title":"Gridiron Capital","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLisa Uperesa charts the cultural, historical, and social dynamics that have made American football so central to Samoan culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Uperesa’s book should not only appeal to anthropologists but also to general readers. She engagingly explains what football has come to mean to a whole range of Samoan players — in college programs and the NFL, as well as on youth and high school teams back home — and gives a compelling account of how dual systems of stratification, one based in Indigenous values and the other in capitalist imperatives, combine, for better and worse. . . . Readers interested in sports and culture in a transnational world will no doubt find \u003ci\u003eGridiron Capital\u003c\/i\u003e engrossing.\" -- David Lipset * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.\" -- J. A. Badics * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Fabled Futures and Gridiron Dreams  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Malaga: Forging New Pathways in Sport and Beyond  23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Football, Tautua, and Faʻasāmoa  48\u003cbr\u003e 3. Producing the Gridiron Warrior  71\u003cbr\u003e 4. Gridiron Capital  103\u003cbr\u003e 5. “Faʻmālosi!”: Strength, Injury, and Sacrifice  123\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Niu Futures  151\u003cbr\u003e Glossary  155\u003cbr\u003e Notes  159\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  185\u003cbr\u003e Index  211","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409007747415,"sku":"9781478018094","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478018094.jpg?v=1730505068","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gridiron-capital-9781478018094","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}