Vehicles
Subtitle: cars, canoes, and other metaphors of moral imagination
By: edited by David Lipset and Richard Handler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781782383758; 9781782383765
Subjects: Vehicles; Case studies; Transportation; Material culture
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Charon's boat and other vehicles of moral imagination / David Lipset; title: Living canoes : vehicles of moral imagination among the Murik of Papua New Guinea / David Lipset; title: Cars, persons, and streets : Erving Goffman and the analysis of traffic rules / Richard Handler; title: It's not an airplane, it's my baby? : using a gender metaphor to make sense of old warplanes in North America / Kent Wayland; title: Is female to male as lightweight cars are to sports cars? : gender metaphors and cognitive schemas in recessionary Japan / Joshua Hotaka Roth; title: Little cars that make us cry : Yugoslav Fica as a vehicle for social commentary and ritual restoration of innocence / Marko Živković; title: "Let's go F.B!" : metaphors of cars and corruption in China / Beth E. Notar; title: Barrio metaxis : ambivalent aesthetics in lowrider cars of Mexican-Americans / Ben Chappell; title: Driving back into the light : traversing life and death in a lynching reenactment by African-Americans / Mark Auslander; title: Afterword : quo vadis? / James W. Fernandez.