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Beyond the All Blacks Representations: The Dialectic between the Indigenization of Rugby and Postcolonial Strategies to Control Māori
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Title: | Beyond the All Blacks Representations: The Dialectic between the Indigenization of Rugby and Postcolonial Strategies to Control Māori |
Authors: | Calabró, Domenica Gisella |
Keywords: | Māori New Zealand rugby indigenization flair show 2 morebranding body show less |
LC Subject Headings: | Oceania -- Periodicals |
Date Issued: | 2014 |
Publisher: | University of Hawai‘i Press Center for Pacific Islands Studies |
Citation: | Calabró, D. G. 2014. Beyond the All Blacks Representations: The Dialectic between the Indigenization of Rugby and Postcolonial Strategies to Control Māori. The Contemporary Pacific 26 (2): 389-408. |
Abstract: | Since the advent of professional rugby, Māori have gained international visibility and attractiveness. The representation of the New Zealand rugby team revolves around their integration and the incorporation of their warrior tradition, suggesting a strong connection between rugby and contemporary Māori society. Rugby has indeed been the object of a process of indigenization, fulfilling goals of sociocultural continuity, political acknowledgment, and, in the professional era, upward social mobility. Nevertheless, rugby has also partly fulfilled its role as a tool of colonization in creating and sanctioning power differentials. Drawing on my ethnographic fieldwork in New Zealand, this article examines the relationship between Māori and rugby as a dialectic phenomenon that has resulted in the diversification of Māori experiences and perceptions of rugby and attests to the heterogeneity of Māori life experiences, aspirations, and formulations of indigeneity in contemporary society. |
Pages/Duration: | 20 pages |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/36719 |
ISSN: | 1043-898X |
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TCP [The Contemporary Pacific], 2014 - Volume 26, Number 2 |
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