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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Auslander, Mark
• Chappell, Ben
• Fernandez, James W
• Handler, Richard
• Handler, Richard[Herausgeber]
• Lipset, David
• Lipset, David[Herausgeber]
• Notar, Beth E
• Roth, Joshua Hotaka
• Wayland, Kent
• Živković, Marko

Titel

Vehicles : Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

Ort / Verlag

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

[2014]

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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