Cover

Front Matter

Half-title

Frontispiece

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of contents

List of figures

Preface

Chapter Int-12

Introduction

Street Gangs and Tribal Peoples

War Was Hell

Cross-Cultural Comparison

Chapter One TO Drink of Death: Tukup's Headhunter Autobiography and the Characteristics of Tribal-Warrior Autobiography

Tukup’s People

Tukup’s Autobiography

Chapter Two The Kinds of Street-Gang Autobiography

In the Life

Out of the Life

Autobiographies in the DMZ

Chapter Three The Bubble Reputation: Honor, Glory and Status Among the Warriors

Tribal Honor—Reputation

Competing for Honor

Shaming: “The Meaner You Act, the Bigger Rep You Earn.”

Maintenance of the Pecking Order

Booty: Honor in Material Form

Chapter Four Glory Manifest: Coup Tales, Warrior Boasts and Gangsta Rap

Occasions for Telling Coup Tales

Coup Tales in Performance

Coups Told in Other Ways

The Grading of Coups

Exaggeration and Authentication

Chapter Five Brutal Honesty

Chapter Six The Education of the Warrior

The Early Years in the Making of a Warrior

Warrior Education among the Meru

Initiation

Desensitization

Othering

Age-Set Rivalry

Stories of Warrior Youth

Warrior Games, Training in Arms

The Role of Stories in Warrior Education

Chapter Seven The Warrior Choice

Stories about the Warrior Choice

Warriors Make Their Choice Again and Again

The Choice of Fusiwe

The Warrior’s Fear

A Change of Perspective

Chapter Eight Mona Ruiz's Two Badges: Women Warriors And Warriors' Women

Amazons

Other Women

Abduction, “Adoption” and Rape

Chapter Nine Sam Blowsnake and the Unfortunate Pottawatomie

Chapter Ten The Gangbanger Autobiography of Monster Kody (Aka Sanyika Shakur)

Tale #1

Tale #2

Tale #3

A Postscript: Kody’s Mentor, Tookie Williams

Chapter Eleven Battle, Raid and Stratagem

Joseph Hoffman’s Story of an Apache Battle

Raids

Warrior Stratagems

Chapter Twelve Berserks and the Tragedy of Warrior Individualism

A Change of Perspective

The Tragedy of Warrior Individualism

End Matter

Appendix A On Circumcision

Appendix B A List of all the Tribal Peoples and Street Gangs Mentioned in this Book

Annotated Bibliography

Africa

American Indian (North America) and Inuit

American Indian, South America

American Street Gangs

Arabia

Polynesia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Philippines

Works Cited

Index