Gunlore

Robert Glenn Howard is professor of rhetoric, politics, and culture at University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he is also director of DesignLab and Digital Studies. He is author of Digital Jesus: The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet. Eric A. Eliason is professor of English at Brigham Young University. He is author of The Island of Lace: Drawn Threadwork on Saba in the Dutch Caribbean; To See Them Run: Great Plains Coyote Coursing; and Black Velvet Art, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

• Introduction. Gunlore and Gunfolks: Defining an Old and Powerful GenreRobert Glenn Howard and Eric A. EliasonChapter 1. Young Guns: Folklore and the Fetishization of Guns among Juveniles at an All-Male Correctional Facility in Tucson, ArizonaRaymond Summerville2. Moms Who Carry: Femininity and Firearms in Vernacular Digital PhotographyAnnamarie O’Brien Morel3. Between the Forest and the Freezer: Visual Culture and Hunting Weapons in the Upper MidwestTim Frandy4. 4chan, Firearms, and FolkloreNoah D. Eliason (with Eric A. Eliason)5. Percussioned Flintlocks: A Nineteenth-Century Folk Art Nathan E. Bender6. NERF PUNK: The Firearm Folklife of "Alternative History" CosplayLondon Brickley7. God’s Warriors: Gunlore and Identity in the Vernacular Discourse of a Survivalist CommunityMegan L. Zahay8. A Knack for Precision: The Art and Science of a Gun-Making DynastySandra Bartlett Atwood9. Dangerous Tools of Expression: The Benefits and Costs of GunloreRobert Glenn HowardChapter 10. Gun Play as Vernacular Religious ExperienceJay Mechling11. Symbols and Things: A Reflection on GunloreTok ThompsonAbout the ContributorsIndex

Delving beyond troubling headlines and instead attempting to understand the underlying interests in guns among American communities, Gunlore offers a unique mosaic of insight into the gun cultures of America." - Mark Bender, Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University