The social life of guns: an introduction / Gunscapes : toward a global geography of the firearm / Gun politics : reflections on Brazil's failed gun ban referendum in the Rio de Janeiro context / Of guns, children, and the maelstrom : determining purposive actions in Israeli-perpetrated firearm deaths of Palestinian children and minors / Silent but still deadly : guns and the peace process in Northern Ireland / Warriors and guns : the anthropology of cattle rustling in northeastern Africa / Arming desire : the sexual force of guns in the United States / Drawing a virtual gun / "Gun rights are civil rights" : racism and the right to keep and bear arms in the United States / "Man to man" : power and male relationships in the gunplay film / Aiming for manhood : the transformation of guns into objects of American masculinity / "I shot the sheriff" : gun talk in Jamaican popular music / Playing at hate : war games, the Aryan World Congress, and the American psyche / The celebration of violence : a live-fire demonstration carried out by Japan's contemporary military