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Sport in the Pacific : colonial and postcolonial consequences / edited by C. Richard King.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sport in the global society. Historical perspectivesPublisher: London : Routledge, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xx, 148 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138015876
  • 1138015873
  • 9780415488693
  • 0415488699
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4830996 23
Contents:
1. Prologue: Exchange, Diaspora, and Globalization / C. Richard King -- 2. Maori Rugby and Subversion: Creativity, Domestication, Oppression and Decolonization / Brendan Hokowhitu -- 3. Rugby, Pacific Peoples, and the Cultural Politics of National Identity in New Zealand / Andrew Grainger -- 4. Changes in Assumptions about Australian Indigenous Footballers: From Exclusion to Enlightenment / Barry Judd -- 5. Transnational Understandings of Australian Aboriginal Sporting Migration: Sporting Walkabout / John Maynard -- 6. Pacific Islanders and American Football: Hula Hula Honeys, Throwin' Samoans and the Rock / Joel S. Franks -- 7. Performing Polynesian Masculinities in American Football: From 'Rainbows to Warriors' / Jesse Makani Markham -- 8. Surfing in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai'i: The Appropriation of a Transcendent Experience to Competitive American Sport / Jim Nendel -- 9. Epilogue: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Predicaments / C. Richard King.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Prologue: Exchange, Diaspora, and Globalization / C. Richard King -- 2. Maori Rugby and Subversion: Creativity, Domestication, Oppression and Decolonization / Brendan Hokowhitu -- 3. Rugby, Pacific Peoples, and the Cultural Politics of National Identity in New Zealand / Andrew Grainger -- 4. Changes in Assumptions about Australian Indigenous Footballers: From Exclusion to Enlightenment / Barry Judd -- 5. Transnational Understandings of Australian Aboriginal Sporting Migration: Sporting Walkabout / John Maynard -- 6. Pacific Islanders and American Football: Hula Hula Honeys, Throwin' Samoans and the Rock / Joel S. Franks -- 7. Performing Polynesian Masculinities in American Football: From 'Rainbows to Warriors' / Jesse Makani Markham -- 8. Surfing in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai'i: The Appropriation of a Transcendent Experience to Competitive American Sport / Jim Nendel -- 9. Epilogue: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Predicaments / C. Richard King.

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