Open fire : understanding global gun cultures / edited by Charles Fruehling Springwood.
Guns are everywhere: three quarters of a billion guns - from pistols to machine guns - exist in the world today. And guns are everything: a hard-won symbol of individual freedom, an index of crime and disorder, a whole industry legitimately contributing to an economy, a popular piece of sports equip...
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- The social life of guns: an introduction / Charles Fruehling Springwood
- Gunscapes : toward a global geography of the firearm / Charles Fruehling Springwood
- Gun politics : reflections on Brazil's failed gun ban referendum in the Rio de Janeiro context / Donna Goldstein
- Of guns, children, and the maelstrom : determining purposive actions in Israeli-perpetrated firearm deaths of Palestinian children and minors / Frank M. Afflitto
- Silent but still deadly : guns and the peace process in Northern Ireland / Jeffrey A. Sluka
- Warriors and guns : the anthropology of cattle rustling in northeastern Africa / Nene Mburu
- Arming desire : the sexual force of guns in the United States / C. Richard King
- Drawing a virtual gun / Katherine Gregory
- "Gun rights are civil rights" : racism and the right to keep and bear arms in the United States / Christy Allen
- "Man to man" : power and male relationships in the gunplay film / Robert Arjet
- Aiming for manhood : the transformation of guns into objects of American masculinity / Amy Ann Cox
- "I shot the sheriff" : gun talk in Jamaican popular music / Carolyn Cooper
- Playing at hate : war games, the Aryan World Congress, and the American psyche / Robert Rinehart
- The celebration of violence : a live-fire demonstration carried out by Japan's contemporary military / Eyal Ben-Ari and Sabine Frühstück.