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Open fire : understanding global gun cultures

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Open fire : understanding global gun cultures / edited by Charles Fruehling Springwood.
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Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2007.
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Springwood, Charles Fruehling.
Description
x, 227 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
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  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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JFE 07-2362
ISBN
  • 9781845204167 (cloth)
  • 1845204166 (cloth)
  • 9781845204174 (pbk.)
  • 1845204174 (pbk.)
LCCN
  • 2006034258
  • 9781845204167
  • 9781845204174
OCLC
  • 74458987
  • vendorOCM74458987
Title
Open fire : understanding global gun cultures / edited by Charles Fruehling Springwood.
Imprint
Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2007.
Edition
English ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Springwood, Charles Fruehling.
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JFE 07-2362
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