Tackling rugby myths :  rugby and New Zealand society 1854-2004 / 
edited by Greg Ryan. 
 - 247 pages :  illustrations, map ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1877276979 9781877276972 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rugby Union football--Social aspects--History.--New Zealand<br/>Rugby Union football--History--New Zealand
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>796.3330993