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>