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OverviewMetaphor, 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Lipset , Richard HandlerPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781785337512ISBN 10: 1785337513 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 01 October 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Charon's Boat and Other Vehicles of Moral Imagination David Lipset PART I: PERSONS AS VEHICLES Chapter 1. Living Canoes: Vehicles of Moral Imagination among the Murik of Papua New Guinea David Lipset Chapter 2. Cars, Persons, and Streets: Erving Goffman and the Analysis of Traffic Rules Richard Handler 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 Kent Wayland Chapter 4. Is Female to Male as Lightweight Cars Are to Sports Cars?: Gender Metaphors and Cognitive Schemas in Recessionary Japan Joshua Hotaka Roth PART III: EQUIVOCAL VEHICLES Chapter 5. Little Cars that Make Us Cry: Yugoslav Fica as a Vehicle for Social Commentary and Ritual Restoration of Innocence MarkoReviewsThe 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 ...the book succeeds in demonstrating that vehicles of all sorts may powerfully aff ect our ways of looking at the world, even as they help us travel through it. * Transfers This edited volume compiles a set of original ethno-graphic case studies focusing on the diverse ways vehicles that convey people through geospatial territory and also convey metaphorical meanings and constructions of the moral...while there has been plenty of attention given to what vehicles signify, there has been little given to how vehicles signify, which is precisely where this book. * Anthropos This volume, Vehicles, is exceptionally important not only for anthropology but for other scientific fields as well. It addresses a core human activity, driving, which appears likely to become a relic of, primarily, the 20th century. * Anthropological Notebooks This book offers ethnographic journeys into the daily work of cultural imaginations by giving attention to what is generally neglected: their vehicles. Not only functional supports or futile material dresses, cars, boats or planes are here delightedly addressed as morale-boosting devices engaged in situated social relations... These essays show that vehicular units are always participation units-they are always vernacular units of cultural agency. * Pierre Lanoy, Universite Libre de Bruxelles ...An excellent and original volume, a fine example of what comparative anthropology can achieve. Furthermore, in addition to its main topic and objectives (about particular metaphors, what they 'do' and how they 'work'), it addresses key issues in the study of objects, material culture, and techniques, namely the involvement of materiality in non-verbal communication. * Pierre Lemonnier, Universite d'Aix-Marseille 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 Author InformationDavid Lipset is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Papua New Guinea since 1981. His most recent book is called Yabar: Alienations of Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity (2017). He has also published articles on a variety of topics about changing masculinity in Murik culture. He is currently working on a book on concept of place in the Anthropology of the Anthropocene. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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