Playing Cricket, Building Borders. The Construction of an Afghan-ness in Migration
In 1969, anthropologist F. Barth showed that an ethnic identity has never been acquired once and for all: he postulated that the existence and maintenance of ethnic groups did not depend on the sharing of their “common cultures”. Thus, he suggested taking as a starting point the work of construction...
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| Samenvatting: | In 1969, anthropologist F. Barth showed that an ethnic identity has never been acquired once and for all: he postulated that the existence and maintenance of ethnic groups did not depend on the sharing of their “common cultures”. Thus, he suggested taking as a starting point the work of construction of “ethnic boundaries” in a “contact zone”. Based on ethnographic research of an informal cricket club created by Afghan exiles living in Froideville (France), this article aims to examine the construction of an ethnic group or an “ethnicity-border” through sport. More precisely, this paper focuses on the construction of social boundaries—cricket is seen as a place that is exclusive to men, where masculinity is centred on physical excellence—, spatial boundaries—where a “lost country” is symbolically recreated through cricket matches—and temporal boundaries. |
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