Abstract This paper examines the trait of sportsmanship in cricket in the historical context through the 1970s. The purpose of the paper is to prove that the popularity of the game was in large part due to its use as a mode of communication of appropriate social conduct among the upper classes and, through the popularity of the game, to the lower classes as well.
From the Paper "Cricket and the British Empire Introduction Cricket has always been deemed a "gentleman's game" due to an emphasis on fair play and appropriate conduct both for the players and the spectators. The game is heavily legislated, consisting of traditional laws and supplemental rules and policies that cannot be violated by any participant. The overwhelming context of cricket is one of order; while the game itself is intended to be enjoyable for its participants and its audience, a good game of cricket is embedded as much in its social interactions as the sport itself. When examined in a historical context, these traits in a simple sporting event suggest a set of priorities within the civilization that created the game. The popularity of the game emerged during the Victorian period, when civilities were a priority among the upper classes."
Abstract This paper presents the views of an evolutionary scientist according to the scientific method to investigate the question: Why do crickets chirp? This paper investigates this question through creating a testable hypothesis and an alternative hypothesis and through running these hypotheses through a simulation. The testable hypothesis is that crickets chirp to find their mates and the alternative hypothesis is that crickets chirp to maintain a territory.
This paper uses movement analysis to evaluate the ethnographic film "Trobriand Cricket" (1973) by anthropologist Jerry W. Leach and filmmaker Gary Kildea.
Abstract This paper explains that, in the film "Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism", made in 1973 by anthropologist Jerry W. Leach and filmmaker Gary Kildea, the film narrative is devoted primarily to the historical context of the cricket game in the Trobriands, providing an illustration of some of the processes of cultural diffusion. The author points out that movement analysis, which focuses on some of the visible aspects of ethnographic films that are often left unrecognized in the film narrative, results in a more profound ethnological appreciation of its contents and is especially valuable for films that focus intentionally on cultural performance. The paper concludes that (1) "Trobriand Cricket" has severe constraints concerning the anthropological "statement" made by the film and (2) movement analysis may yield valuable insight in the initial stages of understanding performance.
From the Paper "The cultural interpretation of any performance--no matter how transparently the performance is represented to the observer (as it is so effectively in ethnographic film)-relies on the kind of close observation that organizes several details of performance into a system. It is not simply growing and shrinking that are at issue in the Trobriand design, not simply linear formations that are at stake in the British style. The relationship of those features to other features, the relationship of growing and shrinking to force and speed and clusters of bodies, the relationship of lines to individual bodies and to a stabilizing energy field bring out distinctive patterns. The value of movement analysis lies in its ability to construct an articulate representation of particular and even peculiar performances in terms of the very general features that all movement processes share so that various patterns of association can be traced throughout the action of a given culture and between performances of various cultures. A system like LMA can abstract principles of conduct and can represent them accurately in their full complexity and peculiarity."
Abstract The paper gives an insight into the problems that the sports organizations of today are facing in England. Some quotes are also listed so as to give the paper a viewpoint from the people who are at the helm of administering these sports bodies, as well as the players who actually play the game and because of whom these sports and leisure organizations are actually in place.
Contents
Introduction
The Problems
Conclusion
From the Paper "Sports organizations in the times of today are thriving on the profits they are making with their partnerships with different brands and products all around the world. There is a similar situation in United Kingdom where soccer has taken the field of sports to levels that the people who love the game adopt it as a religion. Many other sports like cricket, squash, lawn tennis and horse racing are also affluent and well off in the sports world of today. Apart from these, there are the leisure organizations, which benefit all, and sundry as far as providing entertainment and amusement and a general sense of competition amongst the different people is concerned."
