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"""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 Gridiron Capital engrossing."" -- David Lipset * Los Angeles Review of Books * ""Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals."" -- J. A. Badics * Choice *"

"""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 Gridiron Capital engrossing."" -- David Lipset * Los Angeles Review of Books *"

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 Gridiron Capital engrossing. -- David Lipset * Los Angeles Review of Books *

"""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 Gridiron Capital engrossing."" -- David Lipset * Los Angeles Review of Books * ""Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals."" -- J. A. Badics * Choice * ""Uperesa’s informed research and skillful writing allows Gridiron Capital to remain both relevant and accessible to a wide range of readers both within and outside of academia and sport studies, and will likely enable these readers to place the Samoan names they know so well, other names they may not, and perhaps even American Sāmoa itself into appropriate and nuanced historical and contemporary contexts."" -- Garrett Hillyer * Journal of Sport History * “Gridiron Capital is written well and provides an in-depth analysis of the phenomenon that is accessible to a wide audience, resulting in a greater understanding of Samoa, sport, transnational movement.” -- Bliss Wong * International Review for the Sociology of Sport *"

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Lisa Uperesa is Senior Lecturer in Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland.

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