Sport in the Pacific

<p><em>Sport in the Pacific</em> is a comparative consideration of the modern movement of Pacific peoples and their physical pursuits across national and cultural boundaries. It covers Australia, Japan and the United States. Its contributors ensure a deeper understanding of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific—particularly their social identities and cultural responses in the wake of the arrival of modern sport. <em>Sport in the Pacific</em> comprises eight original contributions which analyze Polynesian and Abogirnal athletes and athletics in colonial and post-colonial contexts. Their analyses stress the importance of adaptation and appropriation, reinvention and revivialism, as well as diaspora and globalization. The volume will have three overlapping themes: change and continuity, cultural and transcultural power, and the complexity of race, gender, and national identity. <em>Sport in the Pacific,</em> in short, compares the significance of modern sport in a largely ignored setting: the indigenous societies of the Pacific.</p><p>This book was previously published as a special issue of <em>International Journal of the History of Sport.</em></p> <p>1. Prologue: Exchange, Diaspora, and Globalization 2. Maori Rugby and Subversion: Creativity, Domestication, Oppression and Decolonization <em> </em>3. Rugby, Pacific Peoples, and the Cultural Politics of National Identity in New Zealand 4. Changes in Assumptions about Australian Indigenous Footballers: From Exclusion to Enlightenment 5. Transnational Understandings of Australian Aboriginal Sporting Migration: Sporting Walkabout 6. Pacific Islanders and American Football: Hula Hula Honeys, Throwin’ Samoans and the Rock 7. Performing Polynesian Masculinities in American Football: From ‘Rainbows to Warriors’ 8. Surfing in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai‘i: The Appropriation of a Transcendent Experience to Competitive American Sport 9. Epilogue: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Predicaments</p>