Sport And The New Zealanders

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Sport and the New Zealanders

Sport and the New Zealanders
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Publisher : Auckland University Press
Total Pages : 541
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ISBN-10 : 9781776710041
ISBN-13 : 1776710045
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Book Synopsis Sport and the New Zealanders by : Greg Ryan

Download or read book Sport and the New Zealanders written by Greg Ryan and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of New Zealanders and the sports that we have made our own, from the Māori world to today’s professional athletes. '. . . those two mighty products of the land, the Canterbury lamb and the All Blacks, have made New Zealand what she is in spite of politicians’ claims to the contrary’, wrote Dick Brittenden in 1954. ‘For many in New Zealand, prowess at sport replaces the social graces; in the pubs, during the furious session between 5pm and closing time an hour later, the friend of a relative of a horse trainer is a veritable patriarch. No matador in Madrid, no tenor in Turin could be sure of such flattering attention.’ Why did rugby become much more important than soccer in New Zealand? What role have Māori played in our sporting life? Do we really ‘punch above our weight’ in international sport? Does sport still define our national identity? Viewing New Zealand sport as activity and as imagination, Sport and the New Zealanders is a major history of a central strand of New Zealand life.


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