Vehicles
Cars, Cones, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
This book offers ethnographic journeys into the daily work of cultural imaginations by giving attention to what is generally neglected: their vehicles. Not only functional supports or futile material dresses, cars, boats or planes are here delightedly addressed as morale-boosting devices engaged in situated social relations... These essays show that vehicular units are always participation units-they are always vernacular units of cultural agency. · Pierre Lanoy, Université Libre de Bruxelles...An excellent and original volume, a fine example of what comparative anthropology can achieve. Furthermore, in addition to its main topic and objec…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Lipset, David (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78238-375-8
- EAN: 9781782383758
- Produktnummer: 17079064
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 226 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.6 cm 487 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 487
Über den Autor
David Lipset is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Papua New Guinea since 1981. His most recent book is called Yabar: Alienations of Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity (2017). He has also published articles on a variety of topics about changing masculinity in Murik culture. He is currently working on a book on concept of place in the Anthropology of the Anthropocene.
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