Książka Vehicles Richard Handler

Vehicles

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life an...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2014
strony
224
EAN
9781782383758
ISBN
1782383751
Enbook ID
04845322
Wydawca
Waga
430
Wymiary
237 x 151 x 16

Pełny opis

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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