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1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Vehicles -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Vehicles. |
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Social aspects. |
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Case studies.
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Transportation -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Transportation -- Social aspects. |
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Material culture -- Case studies.
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Material culture. |
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Lipset, David, 1951- editor.
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Handler, Richard, 1950- editor.
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Auslander, Mark, contributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vehicles : cars, canoes, and other metaphors of moral ambivalence. New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, ©2014 viii, 214 pages 9781782383758 |
| ISBN |
9781782383765 (electronic book) |
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178238376X (electronic book) |
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1782383751 |
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9781782383758 |
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9781782383758 |
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