Beschreibung:
Despite the disproportionate success numbers of Indigenous Australian participants in Australia sports, the analysis of the significance of Indigenous people in sports remains relatively minor in both the sports media and academic analyses. This book analyses Indigenous people and Australian sports from an approach that deconstructs and critiques 'mainstream' understandings.
1. Indigenous studies and race relations in Australian sports 2. Aborigines, sport and suicide 3. Indigeneity and the performance of corporeal masculinities in the Australian Football League 4. Bridging the Indigenous health divide: football and men engaging 5. Warlpiri warriors: Australian Rules football in Central Australia 6. Duelling paradigms: Australian Aborigines, marn-grook and football histories 7. Contested space - the Australian Aboriginal sporting arena 8. A modern day Corroboree - the New South Wales Annual Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout Carnival 9. Voices from the boundary line: the Australian Football League's Indigenous Team of the Century 10. The question of indigenous origins and the unlevel playing field: outside the boundary of the dominant paradigm