Table of Contents
The Social Life of Guns: An Introduction—Charles Fruehling Springwood * SECTION I. Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun: Nation-States, Small Arms, and Local Victims * 2. Gunscapes: Toward a Global Geography of the Firearm—Charles Fruehling Springwood * "Silent But Deadly: Guns and Ceasefire Agreements in Northern Ireland"—Jeffrey Sluka *
4. Gun Politics: Reflections on Brazil's Failed Gun Ban Referendum in the Rio de Janeiro Context—Donna Goldstein * 5. "Of Guns, Children and the Maelstrom"—Frank Afflitto * 6. Warriors and Guns: the Anthropology of Cattle Rustling in Northeastern Africa—Nene Mburu
* SECTION II. Cocked and Loaded: Race, Sex, and Gender * 7. Arming Desire: The Sexual Force of Guns in the U.S.—C. Richard King * 8. Drawing a Virtual Gun—Katherine Gregory * 9. 'Gun Rights are Civil Rights': Racism and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the United States—Christy Allen * 10. Aiming for Manhood: The Transformation of Guns into Objects of American Masculinity—Amy Ann Cox * 11. 'Man to Man: Power and Male Relationships in the Gunplay Film'—Robert Arjet * SECTION III. Playing, Dancing, and Thinking with Guns * 12. 'I Shot the Sheriff': Gun Talk in Jamaican Popular Music—Carolyn Cooper * 13. Playing at Hate: War Games, the Aryan World Congress, and the American Psyche—Robert Rinehart * 14. The Celebration of Violence: A Live-Fire Demonstration Carried Out by Japan's Contemporary Military—Eyal Ben-Ari and Sabine Frühstück
