TY  - BOOK
AU  - Auslander,Mark
AU  - Chappell,Ben
AU  - Fernandez,James W.
AU  - Handler,Richard
AU  - Lipset,David
AU  - Notar,Beth E.
AU  - Roth,Joshua Hotaka
AU  - Wayland,Kent
AU  - Živković,Marko
TI  - Vehicles: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination 
SN  - 9781782383758
U1  - 629.04/6 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Transportation
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Vehicles
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Transport Studies, Anthropology (General), Cultural Studies (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FIGURES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Introduction: Charon’s Boat and Other Vehicles of Moral Imagination --; Part I Persons as Vehicles --; Chapter 1 Living Canoes Vehicles of Moral Imagination among the Murik of Papua New Guinea --; Chapter 2 Cars, Persons, and Streets: Erving Goff man 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 --; Chapter 4 Is Female to Male as Lightweight Cars Are to Sports Cars? Gender Metaphors and Cognitive Schemas in Recessionary Japan --; Part III Equivocal Vehicles --; Chapter 5 Little Cars that Make Us Cry: Yugoslav Fića 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 in a Multiracial Setting --; Afterword: Quo Vadis? --; Contributors --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782383765
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782383765
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782383765/original
ER  -