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Vehicles

- Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

Forfatter: info mangler
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  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 224 sider

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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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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal224
  • Udgivelsesdato01-10-2017
  • ISBN139781785337512
  • Forlag Berghahn Books
  • FormatPaperback

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