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Vehicles
- Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
Engelsk Hardback
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Vehicles

- Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9781782383758
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
1782383751
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Udg. Dato:
1 aug 2014
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
151mm
Forlag:
Berghahn Books
Oplagsdato:
1 aug 2014
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