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Tackling rugby myths : rugby and New Zealand society 1854-2004 / edited by Greg Ryan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dunedin, N.Z. : University of Otago Press, 2005Description: 247 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1877276979
  • 9781877276972
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.3330993 22
Contents:
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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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
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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