Vehicles : cars, canoes, and other metaphors of moral ambivalence / / edited by David Lipset and Richard Handler ; contributors, Mark Auslander [and eight others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
Disciplina | 629.04/6 |
Soggetto topico |
Vehicles - Social aspects
Transportation - Social aspects Material culture |
ISBN |
1-78533-751-3
1-78238-376-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 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
Chapter 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 Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791007003321 |
New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Vehicles : cars, canoes, and other metaphors of moral ambivalence / / edited by David Lipset and Richard Handler ; contributors, Mark Auslander [and eight others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
Disciplina | 629.04/6 |
Soggetto topico |
Vehicles - Social aspects
Transportation - Social aspects Material culture |
ISBN |
1-78533-751-3
1-78238-376-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 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
Chapter 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 Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812270103321 |
New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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