Tackling Maori Masculinity: A Colonial Genealogy of Savagery and Sport
- 1 September 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in The Contemporary Pacific
- Vol. 16 (2), 259-284
- https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2004.0046
Abstract
The primary aim of this paper is to deconstruct one of the dominant discourses surrounding Maori men—a discourse that was constructed to limit, homogenize, and reproduce an acceptable and imagined Maori masculinity, and one that has also gained hegemonic consent from many tane. I use a genealogical approach to outline the historical underpinnings of the image of the Maori man as naturally physical, and the mechanisms, including the confiscation of land and a racist state education system, that served to propound and perpetuate this construction. The contemporary portrayal of the natural Maori sportsman has evolved from these historical roots in what has become a largely subconscious but no less insidious pattern of subjugation through positively framed sporting images.Keywords
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