Open fire : understanding global gun cultures /

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Guns are everywhere: three quarters of a billion guns - from pistols to machine guns - exist in the world today. And guns are everything: a hard-won symbol of individual freedom, an index of crime and disorder, a whole industry legitimately contributing to an economy, a popular piece of sports equip...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Springwood, Charles Fruehling
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2007.
Edición:English ed.
Temas:
Firearms > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Firearms in popular culture > Cross-cultural studies.
Firearms ownership.
Violence.
Gun control.
Violence
Armes à feu > Aspect social > Études transculturelles.
Armes à feu dans la culture populaire > Études transculturelles.
Armes à feu > Possession.
Armes à feu > Contrôle.
violence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Firearms in popular culture
Firearms ownership
Firearms > Social aspects
Gun control
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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