ISBN:
178238376X
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9781782383765
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
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illustrations, photographs
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Vehicles : cars, canoes, and other metaphors of moral ambivalence
DDC:
629.04/6
Keywords:
Transportation Case studies Social aspects
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Material culture Case studies
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Vehicles Case studies Social aspects
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Transportation ; Social aspects
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Engineering (General)
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Case studies
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Electronic books
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Material culture
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
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 N
Note:
Includes index
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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