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Vehicles : Cars, Canoes and other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2014

Online-Ressource (224 p)

Englisch

Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Charon's Boat and Other Vehicles of Moral Imagination; Part I - Persons as Vehicles; Chapter 1 - Living Canoes: Vehicles of Popular Imagination among the Murik of Papua New Guinea; Chapter 2 - Cars, Persons, and Streets: Erving Goffman and the Analysis of Traffic Rules; Part II - Vehicles as Gendered Persons; Chapter 3 - ""It's Not an Airplane, It's My Baby"": Using a Gender Metaphor to Make Sense of Old Warplanes in North America

Chapter 4 - Is Female to Male as Lightweight Cars Are to Sports Cars? Gender Metaphors and Cognitive Schemas in Recessionary JapanPart III - Equivocal Vehicles; Chapter 5 - Little Cars that Make Us Cry: Yugoslav Fica as a Vehicle for Social Commentary and Ritual Restoration of Innocence; Chapter 6 - ""Let's Go F.B.!"": Metaphors of Cars and Corruption in China; Chapter 7 - Barrio Metaxis: Ambivalent Aesthetics in Mexican-American Lowrider Cars; Chapter 8 - Driving into the Light: Traversing Life and Death in a Lynching Reenactment by African-Americans; Afterword - Quo Vadis?; Contributors

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Description based upon print version of record

Print version: Vehicles

Druckausg.: Vehicles

978-1-78238-376-5 ( : 69.91 (TX))

978-1-78238-375-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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629.04 ; 629.04/6     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 55.89 (Verkehrswesen; Transportwesen: Sonstiges) ; 50.14 (Technik in Beziehung zu anderen Gebieten)

*Fahrzeug ; Sachkultur ; Metapher ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Material culture ; Case studies ; Transportation ; Social aspects ; Case studies ; Vehicles ; Social aspects ; Case studies ; Electronic books

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.