Tackling rugby myths : rugby and New Zealand society 1854-2004 /
Tackling rugby myths : rugby and New Zealand society 1854-2004 /
edited by Greg Ryan.
- 247 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 'To uphold the honour of the province' : football in Canterbury c. 1854-c. 1890 -- Rural myth and urban actuality : the anatomy of All Black and New Zealand rugby 1884-1938 -- 'A tendency to roughness' : anti-heroic representations of New Zealand rugby football 1890-1914 -- The invention of 1905 -- The paradox of Maori rugby 1870-1914 -- Anthropological football : Maori and the 1937 Springbok tour of New Zealand -- Demonstrable virility : images of masculinity in the 1956 Springbok tour of New Zealand -- Moira's lament? : feminist advocacy and the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand -- The end of an aura : All Black rugby and rural nostalgia in the professional era -- The end of 'our national game'? : romance, mobilities and the politics of organisation -- Nostalgia and resistance : the changing face of rugby. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
1877276979 9781877276972
Rugby Union football--Social aspects--History.--New Zealand
Rugby Union football--History--New Zealand
796.3330993
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 'To uphold the honour of the province' : football in Canterbury c. 1854-c. 1890 -- Rural myth and urban actuality : the anatomy of All Black and New Zealand rugby 1884-1938 -- 'A tendency to roughness' : anti-heroic representations of New Zealand rugby football 1890-1914 -- The invention of 1905 -- The paradox of Maori rugby 1870-1914 -- Anthropological football : Maori and the 1937 Springbok tour of New Zealand -- Demonstrable virility : images of masculinity in the 1956 Springbok tour of New Zealand -- Moira's lament? : feminist advocacy and the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand -- The end of an aura : All Black rugby and rural nostalgia in the professional era -- The end of 'our national game'? : romance, mobilities and the politics of organisation -- Nostalgia and resistance : the changing face of rugby. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
1877276979 9781877276972
Rugby Union football--Social aspects--History.--New Zealand
Rugby Union football--History--New Zealand
796.3330993