Open Fire: Understanding Global Gun Cultures

Table of contents

• Open Fire i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Tables and Figures vii
• Notes on Contributors ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Chapter 1 - The Social Life of Guns: an Introduction 1
• Part I: Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun - Nation-States, Small Arms, and Local Victims 13
• Chapter 2 - Gunscapes: Toward a Global Geography of the Firearm 15
• Chapter 3 - Gun Politics: Reflections on Brazil's Failed Gun Ban Referendum in the Rio De Janeiro Context 28
• Chapter 4 - Of Guns, Children, and the Maelstrom: Determining Purposive Action in Israeli-Perpetrated Firearm Deaths of Palestinian Children and Minors1 42
• Chapter 5 - Silent but Still Deadly: Guns and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland 56
• Chapter 6 - Warriors and Guns: the Anthropology of Cattle Rustling in Northeastern Africa 71
• Part II: Locked and Loaded - Race, Sex, and Gender 85
• Chapter 7 - Arming Desire: the Sexual Force of Guns in the United States 87
• Chapter 8 - Drawing a Virtual Gun1 98
• Chapter 9 - “gun Rights Are Civil Rights”: Racism and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the United States 111
• Chapter 10 - “man to Man”: Power and Male Relationships in the Gunplay Film 125
• Part III - Playing, Dancing, and Thinking with Guns 139
• Chapter 11 - Aiming for Manhood: the Transformation of Guns into Objects of American Masculinity 141
• Chapter 12 - “i Shot the Sheriff”: Gun Talk in Jamaican Popular Music 153
• Chapter 13 - Playing at Hate: War Games, the Aryan World Congress, and the American Psyche 165
• Chapter 14 - The Celebration of Violence: a Live-Fire Demonstration Carried Out by Japan's Contemporary Military1 178
• Notes 199
• References 205
• Index 225

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