Vehicles : : Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination / / ed. by David Lipset, Richard Handler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Auslander, Mark,; Chappell, Ben,; Fernandez, James W.,; Handler, Richard,; Lipset, David,; Notar, Beth E.,; Roth, Joshua Hotaka,; Wayland, Kent,; Živković, Marko,
• HerausgeberIn: Handler, Richard,; Lipset, David,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FIGURES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Introduction: Charon’s Boat and Other Vehicles of Moral Imagination --; Part I Persons as Vehicles --; Chapter 1 Living Canoes Vehicles of Moral Imagination among the Murik of Papua New Guinea --; Chapter 2 Cars, Persons, and Streets: Erving Goff man and the Analysis of Traffic Rules Richard Handler --; Part II Vehicles as Gendered Persons --; Chapter 3 “It’s Not an Airplane, It’s My Baby” Using a Gender Metaphor to Make Sense of Old Warplanes in North America --; Chapter 4 Is Female to Male as Lightweight Cars Are to Sports Cars? Gender Metaphors and Cognitive Schemas in Recessionary Japan --; Part III Equivocal Vehicles --; Chapter 5 Little Cars that Make Us Cry: Yugoslav Fića as a Vehicle for Social Commentary and Ritual Restoration of Innocence --; Chapter 6 “Let’s Go F.B.!” Metaphors of Cars and Corruption in China --; Chapter 7 Barrio Metaxis: Ambivalent Aesthetics in Mexican American Lowrider Cars --; Chapter 8 Driving into the Light: Traversing Life and Death in a Lynching Reenactment by African-Americans in a Multiracial Setting --; Afterword: Quo Vadis? --; Contributors --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782383765; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782383765
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by David Lipset, Richard Handler.

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.