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Vehicles

By Richard Handler

Vehicles Law

Vehicles

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Description
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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
226
Release Date:
2014-08-01
Publication Date:
2014-08-01
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1782383751
ISBN13:
9781782383758
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
485 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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