ISBN:
9781782383765
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (224 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Vehicles
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Vehicles
DDC:
629.04
Keywords:
Material culture ; Case studies
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Transportation ; Social aspects ; Case studies
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Vehicles ; Social aspects ; Case studies
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Fahrzeug
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Sachkultur
;
Metapher
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Index
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