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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 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.472kg ISBN: 9781782383758ISBN 10: 1782383751 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 01 August 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback 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 MarkoReviewsThis 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 manuscript, 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 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 manuscript, 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 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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