Vehicles: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1785337513 ISBN 13: 9781785337512

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2017

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"The essays in this collection offer fresh perspectives on the social role of transportation. I appreciated the weight given to Pacific cultures, which are not as common in conversations about mobility writ large. Though they do undoubtedly use anthropological methods and ask anthropological questions, they also model innovative ways for discussing how technologies enable their drivers and passengers to engage in an embodied relationship to the past." * Technology and Culture

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Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign-for example, a cattle car-and its referent, the Holocaust. These "sign-vehicles" serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures. Analyses include canoes in Papua New Guinea, pedestrians and airplanes in North America, lowriders among Mexican-Americans, and cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern Europe, as well as among African-Americans in the South. Vehicles not only "carry people around," but also "carry" how they are understood in relation to the dynamics of culture, politics and history.

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• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1785337513
• ISBN 13: 9781785337512
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 226
• Herausgeber: Lipset David, Handler Richard