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Vehicles: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
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Vehicles: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination Paperback - 2017

by David Lipset (Editor); Richard Handler (Editor)


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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.

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  • Title Vehicles: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
  • Author David Lipset (Editor); Richard Handler (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berghahn Books
  • Date 2017-10-01
  • ISBN 9781785337512 / 1785337513
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 6 x 8.8 x 0.6 in (15.24 x 22.35 x 1.52 cm)
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