The British Big-Game Hunting Tradition, Masculinity and Fraternalism with Particular Reference to the ‘The Shikar Club’
01 May 2000-Vol. 20, Iss: 1, pp 70-96
TL;DR: The Shikar Club as discussed by the authors is a British big-game hunting tradition with a particular reference to the Shikars Club, which was formed in the early 1970s, and was founded by men.
Abstract: (2000). The British Big-Game Hunting Tradition, Masculinity and Fraternalism with Particular Reference to the ‘The Shikar Club’. The Sports Historian: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 70-96.
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TL;DR: The authors contextualized some of these recognizable names and faces by placing them into the transnational circuits that brought them to New Zealand, and argued that New Zealanders actively participated in these transnational networks of politics, entertainment, and sport.
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...However, hunting also became a means for the sportsmen to display nationalism which, in the colonial context, intertwined with ideals of a masculine identity of the British hunter (Mckenzie 2000:71)....
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...…the ways in which hunting became for the British colonialists a modality to display and assert a masculine self-identity, over the local society and some fellow country men, an identity which was then articulated with triumphant nationalistic rhetoric (Sramek 2006, Mckenzie 2000, Wonders 2005)....
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...As Selous writing about his hunting experiences in India states: to fi nd true wild pagan sport, such as stirs the blood and brings to the top the hardiest and manliest instincts in human nature, one must go to the hills of Northern India… (Selous 1893: 91 cited in Mckenzie 2000:75)....
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