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.

This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

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

Christopher J. Hallinan is a Senior Research Fellow with the Monash Indigenous Centre at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests are within the politics of ethnic, racial and national identities, and ethnographic research methods.

Barry Judd is Associate Professor with School of Global Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Barry is a descendent of the Pitjantjatjara people of north west South Australia and British immigrants who settled on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s.