|
Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > Road & motor vehicles: general interest > Motor cars: general interest
|
Buy Now
Car Cultures (Paperback, First)
Loot Price: R1,185
Discovery Miles 11 850
|
|
|
Car Cultures (Paperback, First)
Series: Materializing Culture
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Anyone who assumes that a car is simply a means to get from point A
to point B, or who even thinks that they know what a car is, should
read this book. Profoundly shaped by culture, the car gives rise to
a wide range of emotions, from guilt about the environment in the
UK to aboriginal concerns with car 'corpses', to struggles to keep
the creatures 'alive' with everything but the proper spare parts in
West Africa. Cars and their landscapes prove central to human life
from its most intimate to the widest sense of global crisis, and
are capable of inspiring epic passions.
From road rage in Western Europe to the struggles of cab driving in
Africa to the emergence of Black identity in the US, this book
examines the essential humanity of the car, which includes the
jealousies, gender differences, fears and moralities that cars give
rise to. Firmly grounded in detailed ethnographic and historical
scholarship, this is the first book to provide an informed sense of
cars as one of the most familiar and significant forms of material
culture.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(2)
