TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ryan,Greg
TI  - Tackling rugby myths: rugby and New Zealand society 1854-2004 
SN  - 1877276979
U1  - 796.3330993 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Dunedin, N.Z.
PB  - University of Otago Press
KW  - Rugby Union football
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - History
N1  - 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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