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Vehicles : Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination, Paperback / softback Book

Vehicles : Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination Paperback / softback

Edited by David Lipset, Richard Handler

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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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