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The Aboriginal football ethic: where the rules get flexible
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-20, 13:41 authored by Timothy ButcherTimothy Butcher, Judd, BIn his highly influential history of Australian rules football, Geoffrey Blainey promoted the idea that the sport constituted a 'game of our own'. In making this claim, Blainey suggested the sport was the outcome of Anglo-Australian cultural innovations. In raising the prospect of an Aboriginal football ethic we question this assertion and ask who is really taking this indigenous sport forward today.
History
Publication title
Griffith ReviewVolume
53Pagination
167-176ISSN
1839-2954Department/School
TSBEPublisher
Text Publishing CompanyPlace of publication
AustraliaRights statement
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