David (Hrsg.) Lipset

Vehicles

Cars, Canoes and other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

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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, lowrider… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78238-376-5
EAN: 9781782383765
Produktnummer: 22581132
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 11'966 KB

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.