Packet 7: Bonus 17
James Clifford cited this game as an example of “invention in the modern world system” that demands an attitude of “ethnographic surrealism.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Gary Kildea and Jerry Leach filmed what game as “an ingenious response to colonialism”? In that 1975 film, umpires use war magic to aid this game’s teams, who follow each out with a choreographed dance.
ANSWER: Trobriand cricket [accept equivalents like cricket played in the Trobriand Islands; prompt on cricket]
[10e] Trobriand cricket adapts a “mission game” into a ritual contest or kyasa, which this ethnographer described in Coral Gardens and Their Magic.
ANSWER: Bronisław Malinowski [or Bronisław Kasper Malinowski]
[10m] James Clifford compares Trobriand cricket’s “ludic warfare” to Picasso’s use of African masks in a collection titled for the “predicament” of this word. Clifford’s anthology Writing [this word] is a major text in anthropology’s “literary turn.”
ANSWER: culture [accept The Predicament of Culture; accept Writing Culture]
<Editors, Social Science> | P. Playoffs 7 (Editors 7)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 16.25 | 94% | 69% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruin | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech B | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Minnesota | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| NYU A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| NYU B | Stanford B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ohio State | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Rutgers | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA | Texas | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia Tech | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WashU | Cambridge | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | UCF | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 16 | 16.25 | 94% | 69% | 0% |