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Introduction: At a Rotorua hotel, guests from a variety of countries gasp appreciatively as their feather and flaxed host lifts the stainless steel basket from the steaming hangi pit. He unwraps the foil, releasing delicious odors of pork, puha and yes, Tegel chicken. He holds up an empty drink bottle and grins: "Today's flavor, Fanta. I find that adding a dash of soft drink before sealing the foil really helps the flavor." The guests take plastic plates and line up, well satisfied with their daring in venturing into this territory of "other", and well satisfied with this "authenticity" recoded for their consumption. Out the back the pit diggers grab a quick Big Mac before the next tourist onslaught. The modernist discourse on tourist consumption of native spectacles and goods, whether these form part of contemporary local life or not, is only one theme in a variety of discourses possible when...

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