Vehicles: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination - Tapa blanda

 
9781785337512: Vehicles: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
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ISBN 10: 1785337513 ISBN 13: 9781785337512
Editorial: Berghahn Books, 2017

Sinopsis

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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David 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.



Richard Handler is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, where he is Director of the Program in Global Development Studies. He has written extensively on nationalism and the politics of culture, museums, and the history of anthropology. His most recent book is Critics Against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Society (2005).

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Editorial
Berghahn Books
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1785337513
ISBN 13 
9781785337512
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
226
Editor
Lipset David, Handler Richard
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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