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Vehicles - Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination (Hardcover)
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Vehicles - Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination (Hardcover)
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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.
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