Beyond the All Blacks Representations: The Dialectic between the Indigenization of Rugby and Postcolonial Strategies to Control Māori

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dc.contributor.author Calabró, Domenica Gisella en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2015-09-02T18:59:47Z
dc.date.available 2015-09-02T18:59:47Z
dc.date.issued 2014 en_US
dc.description.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. en_US
dc.format.extent 20 pages en_US
dc.identifier.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. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1043-898X en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/36719
dc.publisher University of Hawai‘i Press en_US
dc.publisher Center for Pacific Islands Studies en_US
dc.subject Māori en_US
dc.subject New Zealand en_US
dc.subject rugby en_US
dc.subject indigenization en_US
dc.subject flair en_US
dc.subject branding en_US
dc.subject body en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Oceania -- Periodicals en_US
dc.title Beyond the All Blacks Representations: The Dialectic between the Indigenization of Rugby and Postcolonial Strategies to Control Māori en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.type.dcmi Text en_US
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