Full Description
This book analyses the meaning attached to sport in South African societies, past and present. It explores the history and changing meanings attached to particular sports in the old and new South Africas, and the ways in which sport is being used in the present. In particular, it examines the prominent team sports of rugby, soccer, and cricket in the creation of social divisions and unities over the course of South African history.
Contents
Preface; Introduction; The Making of Modern South African History & Sport; Imperial Games: The Emergence of White-dominated Sport; Respectability, Urban Culture & the Development of Modern Sport in South Africa's Black Communities; 'White Tribe Dreaming': Rugby, Politics & White Identities in 'White' South Africa 1948-90; The Development of Soccer & Urban Black Culture & Identity; 'No Normal Sport in an Abnormal Society': Apartheid, The Rise of Non-racial Sport & International Boycott Movements 1958-90; South Africa in Union? Sport 'Unity', Identities & the Rainbow Nation; The Burden of the Past: (Re)Presentation, History, Sport & Society in the Rainbow Nation; References; Index.NER(01): GB IE
