Table of Contents

1.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 3. "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

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About the Author

Charles Fruehling Springwood is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University.