ASO's catalog record and curator's notes for Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism (1976), a 52-minute documentary on Trobriand Islanders' adaptation of cricket into kayasa, stating that each team brings its own umpire to affirm the outs while secretly performing war magic against the opposing team.
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Citation
PublisherASO, Australia's audio and visual heritage online (National Film and Sound Archive of Australia)
URLhttps://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/trobriand-cricket/notes/
Source TypeInstitutional database
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Tier one: Australia's national screen heritage catalog, maintained by the National Film and Sound Archive, including curator's notes on the film's content. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Trobriand Islanders directly: "(1976), a 52-minute documentary on Trobriand Islanders' adaptation of cricket into kayasa, stating that each team brings its own umpire to affirm the outs while secretly performing war magic against..."
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- Screen Works, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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