Gunlore

Gunlore

Firearms, Folkways, and Communities

Howard, Robert Glenn; Eliason, Eric A.

University Press of Mississippi

08/2024

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9781496850928

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Introduction. Gunlore and Gunfolks: Defining an Old and Powerful Genre
Robert Glenn Howard and Eric A. Eliason
Chapter 1. Young Guns: Folklore and the Fetishization of Guns among Juveniles at an All-Male Correctional Facility in Tucson, Arizona
Raymond Summerville
2. Moms Who Carry: Femininity and Firearms in Vernacular Digital Photography
Annamarie O'Brien Morel
3. Between the Forest and the Freezer: Visual Culture and Hunting Weapons in the Upper Midwest
Tim Frandy
4. 4chan, Firearms, and Folklore
Noah D. Eliason (with Eric A. Eliason)
5. Percussioned Flintlocks: A Nineteenth-Century Folk Art
Nathan E. Bender
6. NERF PUNK: The Firearm Folklife of "Alternative History" Cosplay
London Brickley
7. God's Warriors: Gunlore and Identity in the Vernacular Discourse of a Survivalist Community
Megan L. Zahay
8. A Knack for Precision: The Art and Science of a Gun-Making Dynasty
Sandra Bartlett Atwood
9. Dangerous Tools of Expression: The Benefits and Costs of Gunlore
Robert Glenn Howard
Chapter 10. Gun Play as Vernacular Religious Experience
Jay Mechling
11. Symbols and Things: A Reflection on Gunlore
Tok Thompson
About the Contributors
Index
AK-47; AR-15; Arizona; Cold War; Correctional facility; Covid-19; folk-speech; Gallup Poll; handicraft; hunting; material culture; Midwest; military; neologism; pistols; politics; rifles