LEADER 03724nam 2200685 450 001 9910791007003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78533-751-3 010 $a1-78238-376-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781782383765 035 $a(CKB)2550000001333110 035 $a(EBL)1644355 035 $a(OCoLC)884645748 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001289946 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12596903 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001289946 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11250685 035 $a(PQKB)11078634 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1644355 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1644355 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10899228 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL630038 035 $a(OCoLC)889308877 035 $a(DE-B1597)636841 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781782383765 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001333110 100 $a20140810h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aVehicles $ecars, canoes, and other metaphors of moral ambivalence /$fedited by David Lipset and Richard Handler ; contributors, Mark Auslander [and eight others] 210 1$aNew York ;$aOxford, [England] :$cBerghahn Books,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (224 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-306-98787-3 311 $a1-78238-375-1 327 $aContents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Charon's Boat and Other Vehicles of Moral Imagination; Part I - Persons as Vehicles; Chapter 1 - Living Canoes: Vehicles of Popular Imagination among the Murik of Papua New Guinea; Chapter 2 - Cars, Persons, and Streets: Erving Goffman and the Analysis of Traffic Rules; Part II - Vehicles as Gendered Persons; Chapter 3 - ""It's Not an Airplane, It's My Baby"": Using a Gender Metaphor to Make Sense of Old Warplanes in North America 327 $aChapter 4 - Is Female to Male as Lightweight Cars Are to Sports Cars? Gender Metaphors and Cognitive Schemas in Recessionary JapanPart III - Equivocal Vehicles; Chapter 5 - Little Cars that Make Us Cry: Yugoslav Fica as a Vehicle for Social Commentary and Ritual Restoration of Innocence; Chapter 6 - ""Let's Go F.B.!"": Metaphors of Cars and Corruption in China; Chapter 7 - Barrio Metaxis: Ambivalent Aesthetics in Mexican-American Lowrider Cars; Chapter 8 - Driving into the Light: Traversing Life and Death in a Lynching Reenactment by African-Americans; Afterword - Quo Vadis?; Contributors 327 $aIndex 330 $aMetaphor, 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, 606 $aVehicles$xSocial aspects$vCase studies 606 $aTransportation$xSocial aspects$vCase studies 606 $aMaterial culture$vCase studies 615 0$aVehicles$xSocial aspects 615 0$aTransportation$xSocial aspects 615 0$aMaterial culture 676 $a629.04/6 702 $aLipset$b David$f1951- 702 $aHandler$b Richard$f1950- 702 $aAuslander$b Mark 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791007003321 996 $aVehicles$92023979 997 $aUNINA