Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies

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Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies is a study of the autobiographies of tribal-warrior cultures in North America, the Amazon, the Orinoco Basin, the highlands of Luzon, the island of Alor of headhunters, women, Apaches, New Guinea big men and a Yanomami captive. The book also discusses tribal-warrior autobiographies closer to home: Colton Simpson's Inside the Crips, Mona Ruiz's Two Badges, Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler and Sanyika Shakur's Monster, autobiographies that remember gangbanging at a time when there were close to 500 gang-related homicides a year in Los Angelesa time when gangbangers were so alienated from the larger society that they reinvented something very similar to the tribal-warrior cultures right in the asphalt heart of American cities. Grisly, probing and resonant with the voices of generations of fighters, Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies is an unsettling work of cross-disciplinary scholarship.

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H. David Brumble is a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and has won both of the universitys most prestigious teaching prizes. He has written four books and numerous articles. Brumble has lived and traveled in 45 countries. He has taken students to 28 countries, mostly in the developing world.