Open fire : understanding global gun cultures / edited by Charles Fruehling Springwood.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Springwood, Charles Fruehling
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2007.
Edition:	English ed.
Subjects:	Firearms > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies. Firearms in popular culture > Cross-cultural studies. Firearms ownership. Violence. Gun control.
Online Access:	Publisher description Table of contents only Contributor biographical information

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.

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