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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Vehicles
Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
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Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
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Table of contents
- VEHICLES
- CONTENTS
- FIGURES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- introduction. Charon’s Boat and Other Vehiclesof Moral Imagination
- part I. Persons as Vehicles
- chapter 1. Living CanoesVehicles of Moral Imagination among
- chapter 2. Cars, Persons, and StreetsErving Goff man and the Analysis of Traffi c Rules
- part II. Vehicles as Gendered Persons
- chapter 3. “It’s Not an Airplane, It’s My Baby”
- chapter 4. Is Female to Male asLightweight Cars Are to Sports Cars?
- part III. Equivocal Vehicles
- chapter 5. Little Cars that Make Us Cry
- chapter 6. “Let’s Go F.B.!”
- chapter 7. Barrio Metaxis
- chapter 8. Driving into the Light
- afterword. Quo Vadis?
- contributors
- INDEX
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