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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781782383758
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-78238-375-8
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.08.2014
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2014
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 485 g
- Seiten: 224
- Format (B x H x T): 157 x 235 x 17 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt