Format:
Online-Ressource (240 p.)
ISBN:
9781845204167
Content:
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. Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 The Social Life of Guns: An Introduction; Part I Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun; 2 Gunscapes: Toward a Global Geography of the Firearm; 3 Gun Politics: Reflections on Brazil's Failed Gun Ban Referendum in the Rio de Janeiro Context; 4 Of Guns, Children, and the Maelstrom: Determining Purposive Action in Israeli-perpetrated Firearm Deaths of Palestinian Children and Minors; 5 Silent but Still Deadly: Guns and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
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6 Warriors and Guns: The Anthropology of Cattle Rustling in Northeastern AfricaPart II Locked and Loaded; 7 Arming Desire: The Sexual Force of Guns in the United States; 8 Drawing a Virtual Gun; 9 "Gun Rights Are Civil Rights": Racism and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the United States; 10 "Man to Man": Power and Male Relationships in the Gunplay Film; Part III Playing, Dancing, and Thinking with Guns; 11 Aiming for Manhood: The Transformation of Guns into Objects of American Masculinity; 12 "I Shot the Sheriff": Gun Talk in Jamaican Popular Music
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13 Playing at Hate: War Games, the Aryan World Congress, and the American Psyche14 The Celebration of Violence: A Live-fire Demonstration Carried Out by Japan's Contemporary Military; Notes; References; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847883278
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Open Fire : Understanding Global Gun Cultures
Language:
English
Keywords:
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