The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #116408 Message #2506699
Posted By: Jack Campin
03-Dec-08 - 06:35 AM
Thread Name: Morris v Hakka?
Subject: RE: Morris v Hakka?
The haka used by the All Blacks is actually NOT a war dance in the original meaning of the genre. It's a poem by the resistance leader Te Rauparaha written when he was in hiding and looking forward to better times. It's quite a serious statement - comparable to "Jerusalem", say. It's been trivialized enough being used by a football team without being turned into a rhetorical football itself.