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An evolving geography of sport: The recruitment and mobility of Samoan College football players 1998--2006.

机译：运动地理的发展：1998--2006年萨摩亚大学足球运动员的招募和流动性。

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In the last decade, the national media discovered the rise of Samoans and Polynesians in collegiate and professional football, which had gone virtually unnoticed in the scholarly world. Samoans have played in collegiate and professional ranks since the 1940s. Over a nine year period, from 1998 to 2006, my compilation shows that 1,191 student-athletes attended colleges in every conference of Division I football (player states) and came from 26 different home states, including American Samoa. A sustained increase of Samoans student-athletes in the game of football began in the 1970s.; The purpose of this thesis was to explore the meanings and dynamics in the flows of Samoan football players and how, in the process, their identities are constructed, conveyed, and understood. The broad goal was to take a cultural geographic approach to Samoan athletic performance and experience and, in this way, expand the geographical study of sport. Culture and identity, two tropes or themes common within cultural geography, were used as frames to better understand the many issues in the recruitment and mobility of college football players of Samoan ancestry. Indispensable to this inquiry was indepth field interviews and talking story with fifteen current and former college football players, the context for which was the 'ethnography of the particular'.; Foundational work in sports geography forty years ago by John Rooney, which located and mapped the origin and diffusion of football players in the United States, has been criticized as being long on description and short on interpretation. In this study, numbers, charts, and maps are a starting point to explore the notion that Samoan identity and football are inextricably linked and what this means to the individual player, the Samoan community, and the broader population. The identities of players change depending on time, place, and context both in and outside of football, especially since current student-athletes represent a second- or third-generation in the game. Variations in what it means to be a Samoan football player reflects the fact that fewer now live in the inner cities just as much as the differences in the vernacular regions from which they were originally drawn, throughout rural and urban America as well as Tutuila in American Samoa.; The immediate and extended family was of first importance to the fifteen collegiate players in their transformation from youth to adulthood. Families grounded them and gave unquestioning support to excel at school and in sport. Spiritual faith is a strong aspect of players' lives and the church forms the social space that allows them to practice it and their culture of fa'a Samoa (Samoan way). As the Polynesian diaspora spreads, fa'a Samoa continues to evolve and be contested, as reflected in enhanced cultural interpretations summarized in fa'a Hawai'i and fa'a Kalifonia.; The physical communities in which players were raised serve a dual purpose: as a place they represented on the field and a witness to the much larger Samoan community found nationally and worldwide. A second community is an imagined one: the fraternity of football players found and the subcommunity of Samoan and Polynesian athletes within it. The multilevel approach of compiling data, using visual and textual displays of Samoan football players, and constructing fifteen case histories to explore questions stemming from culture and identity expands the geography of sport beyond numbers and locations to a more cultural and holistic understanding of movement processes in the college recruitment of Samoan student-athletes.; Keywords: Samoan American Football Players, Sports Geography, NCAA College Football, Culture, Identity, Movement, Recruitment
机译：在过去的十年中，国家媒体发现萨摩亚人和波利尼西亚人在大学橄榄球和职业足球运动中崛起，这在学术界几乎没有被注意到。自1940年代以来，萨摩亚人就曾在大学和专业队伍中打过球。从1998年到2006年的9年时间里，我的汇编显示，有1191名学生运动员参加了I分区足球赛（球员州）的每次会议的大学学习，来自26个不同的祖国，包括美属萨摩亚。从1970年代开始，萨摩亚学生足球运动持续增长。本文旨在探讨萨摩亚足球运动员流动的意义和动态，以及在此过程中如何构建，传达和理解其身份。广泛的目标是对萨摩亚的运动表现和经验采取文化地理学的方法，并以此扩展体育运动的地理学研究。文化和身份是文化地理中常见的两个对立或主题，被用作框架来更好地理解萨摩亚血统的大学橄榄球运动员的招募和流动性中的许多问题。这种询问必不可少的是与十五名现任和前任大学橄榄球运动员进行的深入访谈和谈话故事，其背景是“特定民族志”。约翰·鲁尼（John Rooney）四十年前在体育地理学领域的基础工作，该工作定位并绘制了美国足球运动员的起源和传播，但由于其描述过多而缺乏解释，因此受到批评。在这项研究中，数字，图表和地图是探讨萨摩亚身份和足球之间有着千丝万缕联系的概念的起点，这对个人球员，萨摩亚社区和更广泛的人口意味着什么。球员的身份会根据足球内外的时间，地点和环境而变化，特别是因为当前的学生运动员代表着游戏的第二代或第三代。成为萨摩亚足球运动员意味着什么的变化反映了一个事实，即现在居住在内城的人数减少了，与居住在美国各地的城乡以及美国的图图伊拉州的本地地区的差异一样多萨摩亚。直系亲属和大家庭对于15位大学球员从青年到成年的转变至关重要。家庭将他们扎根，并毫无疑问地支持了他们在学校和运动中的卓越表现。精神信仰是玩家生活的重要方面，而教堂则形成了社交空间，使他们能够实践这种精神以及萨摩亚的法萨摩（fa'a Samoa）文化。随着波利尼西亚侨民的传播，萨摩亚群岛不断发展和争夺，这反映在法阿夏威夷和法阿卡利福尼亚总结的增强的文化解释中。在其中培养运动员的身体社区有双重目的：作为他们在球场上代表的地方，并见证着遍布全国和全世界的更大的萨摩亚社区。第二个社区是一个想象中的社区：发现了足球运动员的兄弟会以及该社区中萨摩亚和波利尼西亚运动员的亚社区。使用萨摩亚足球运动员的视觉和文字显示来汇总数据的多层次方法，以及构建十五个案例历史来探究文化和身份相关的问题，将体育的地理范围从数字和位置扩展到了对运动过程的更文化和整体的理解萨摩亚学生运动员的大学招生；关键字：萨摩亚美式足球运动员，运动地理，NCAA大学橄榄球，文化，身份，运动，招聘

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  • 作者

    Markham, Jesse Wind.;

  • 作者单位

    University of Hawai'i at Manoa.;

  • 授予单位 University of Hawai'i at Manoa.;
  • 学科 Geography.; Education Higher.; Recreation.
  • 学位 M.A.
  • 年度 2008
  • 页码 146 p.
  • 总页数 146
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 自然地理学;高等教育;群众文化事业;
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