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Sport, society & culture in New Zealand / edited by Brad Patterson.
- Title
- Sport, society & culture in New Zealand / edited by Brad Patterson.
- Publication
- Wellington, N.Z. : Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GV706.5 .S7367 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 183 p.; 21 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Sport, society and culture in New Zealand
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Note
- "This book collects 16 papers from the Stout Research Centre conference The real level playing field?: sport, society and culture, held in October 1998"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Editor's note / Brad Patterson -- 1. Sport and national identity : race relations, business, professionalism / Chris Laidlaw -- 2. Screw sessions : the pleasures of hammering the hell out of ourselves and others / Brian Turner -- 3. Death of a dream : the fact and fictions of Jack Lovelock / James McNeish -- 4. New Zealanders' attitudes to sport as illustrated by debate over rugby contacts with South Africa / Trevor Richards -- 5. 'Ex-pats' and 'poofters' rebuild the nation : 1982, Kiwi culture and the All Whites on the road to Spain / Bill Keane -- 6. New Zealand's wicket women / Adrienne Simpson -- 7. The missing literature / Lloyd Jones -- 8. Legacy of 'The Tour' : a continued analysis of women's relationship to sport / Shane M. Thompson -- 9. Sport, the media and New Zealand / Patrick Day -- 10. Tall cows, sacred poppies and the fallible pantheon / Michael Grimshaw -- 11. 'On the ball' : New Zealand's rugby song / Allan Thomas -- 12. Clashes of cultures and class : the jockeys' strike of 1920 / David Grant -- 13. Literature, journalism and sport in New Zealand / Roger Robinson -- 14. Nineteenth-century women on bicycles redefine respectability / Clare Simpson -- 15. Sport, class and community in canterbury, 1850-1880 : the evidence from Rowing / Geoffrey T. Vincent -- 16. Fishing for empire : sport and travel in New Zealand from the 1870s to the 1930s / Lydia Wevers.
- ISBN
- 0473064030 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2001430678
- OCLC
- 48013518
- SCSB-11391484
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library