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Informationen zum Autor Charles Fruehling Springwood is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University. Zusammenfassung Guns are everywhere: three quarters of a billion guns - from pistols to machine guns exist in the world. Illustrated with a range of case material - from North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa, this work explores and questions this global icon. Why do guns proliferate? What does it mean to shoot or to be shot? And more. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.The Social Life of Guns: An Introduction, Charles Fruehling SpringwoodSECTION I. Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun: Nation-States, Small Arms, and Local Victims2. Gunscapes: Toward a Global Geography of the Firearm, Charles Fruehling Springwood3. "Silent But Deadly: Guns and Ceasefire Agreements in Northern Ireland", Jeffrey Sluka4. Gun Politics: Reflections on Brazil's Failed Gun Ban Referendum in the Rio de Janeiro Context, Donna Goldstein5. "Of Guns, Children and the Maelstrom" , Frank Afflitto6. Warriors and Guns: the Anthropology of Cattle Rustling in Northeastern Africa, Nene MburuSECTION II. Cocked and Loaded: Race, Sex, and Gender7. Arming Desire: The Sexual Force of Guns in the U.S., C. Richard King8. Drawing a Virtual Gun, Katherine Gregory9. 'Gun Rights are Civil Rights': Racism and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the United States, Christy Allen10. Aiming for Manhood: The Transformation of Guns into Objects of American Masculinity, Amy Ann Cox11. 'Man to Man: Power and Male Relationships in the Gunplay Film', Robert Arjet SECTION III. Playing, Dancing, and Thinking with Guns12. 'I Shot the Sheriff': Gun Talk in Jamaican Popular Music, Carolyn Cooper13. Playing at Hate: War Games, the Aryan World Congress, and the American Psyche, Robert Rinehart14. The Celebration of Violence: A Live-Fire Demonstration Carried Out by Japan's Contemporary Military, Eyal Ben-Ari and Sabine Frühstück
