Tackling rugby myths : rugby and New Zealand society 1854-2004 / edited by Greg Ryan.
Material type: TextPublisher: Dunedin, N.Z. : University of Otago Press, 2005Description: 247 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1877276979
- 9781877276972
- 796.3330993 22
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 796.3330993 TAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A354686B | ||
Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 796.3330993 TAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A355045B | ||
Book | South Campus South Campus Main Collection | 796.3330993 TAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A354670B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 1. 'To uphold the honour of the province' : football in Canterbury c. 1854-c. 1890 -- 2. Rural myth and urban actuality : the anatomy of All Black and New Zealand rugby 1884-1938 -- 3. 'A tendency to roughness' : anti-heroic representations of New Zealand rugby football 1890-1914 -- 4. The invention of 1905 -- 5. The paradox of Maori rugby 1870-1914 -- 6. Anthropological football : Maori and the 1937 Springbok tour of New Zealand -- 7. Demonstrable virility : images of masculinity in the 1956 Springbok tour of New Zealand -- 8. Moira's lament? : feminist advocacy and the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand -- 9. The end of an aura : All Black rugby and rural nostalgia in the professional era -- 10. The end of 'our national game'? : romance, mobilities and the politics of organisation -- 11. Nostalgia and resistance : the changing face of rugby.
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