摘要:This essay examines how sport, State education and physical education have contributed to the suppression of the indigenous New Zealand Maori by promulgating their stereotype as a physical and unintelligent people. It begins by providing an historical genealogy of the savage physical Maori stereotype. Next, this stereotype is shown to have justified a racist education system that channelled Maori into manual, as opposed to academic, areas. Later, Maori culture and Maori successes were afforded inclusion only within non-threatening domains such as physical education and sport. The ramifications of physical education becoming the first subject area to offer overtures to Maori, are examined. Lastly, I suggest that the naturalization of Maori as sportspeople contributed to the colonization process by assimilating Maori in an area that highlighted their supposed inherent physicality.
其他摘要:This essay examines how sport, State education and physical education have contributed to the suppression of the indigenous New Zealand Maori by promulgating their stereotype as a physical and unintelligent people. It begins by providing an historical genealogy of the savage physical Maori stereotype. Next, this stereotype is shown to have justified a racist education system that channelled Maori into manual, as opposed to academic, areas. Later, Maori culture and Maori successes were afforded inclusion only within non-threatening domains such as physical education and sport. The ramifications of physical education becoming the first subject area to offer overtures to Maori, are examined. Lastly, I suggest that the naturalization of Maori as sportspeople contributed to the colonization process by assimilating Maori in an area that highlighted their supposed inherent physicality. Keywords: Sport. New Zealand. Indigenous. History.