This important and engaging collection explores the underappreciated history and continuing significance of sport in the Pacific. In particular, it directs attention to the movement of people and sporting practices exploring the importance of borrowing, appropriation, diaspora, racism, and imperialism.

This book was published as a special

C. Richard King, professor of comparative ethnic studies at Washington State University, has written extensively on the changing position of Native Americans in post-Civil Rights America, the colonial legacies and postcolonial predicaments of American culture, and the racial politics of sport. He is also the author/editor of several books, including Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy (a CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Title) Postcolonial America, Visual Economies of/in Motion: Sport and Film and Native Americans and Sport in North America (Sport and Global Society Series).

1. Prologue: Exchange, Diaspora, and Globalization 2. Maori Rugby and Subversion: Creativity, Domestication, Oppression and Decolonization 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