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Vehicles : cars, canoes, and other metaphors of moral ambivalence /

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 transp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lipset, David, 1951- (Editor ), Handler, Richard, 1950- (Editor ), Auslander, Mark (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford [England] : Berghahn Books, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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245 0 0 |a Vehicles :  |b cars, canoes, and other metaphors of moral ambivalence /  |c edited by David Lipset and Richard Handler ; contributors, Mark Auslander [and eight others]. 
264 1 |a New York ;  |a Oxford [England] :  |b Berghahn Books,  |c 2014. 
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505 0 |a Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Charon's Boat and Other Vehicles of Moral Imagination; Part I -- Persons as Vehicles; Chapter 1 -- Living Canoes: Vehicles of Popular Imagination among the Murik of Papua New Guinea; Chapter 2 -- Cars, Persons, and Streets: Erving Goffman and the Analysis of Traffic Rules; Part II -- Vehicles as Gendered Persons; Chapter 3 -- ""It's Not an Airplane, It's My Baby"": Using a Gender Metaphor to Make Sense of Old Warplanes in North America. 
505 8 |a Chapter 4 -- Is Female to Male as Lightweight Cars Are to Sports Cars? Gender Metaphors and Cognitive Schemas in Recessionary JapanPart III -- Equivocal Vehicles; Chapter 5 -- Little Cars that Make Us Cry: Yugoslav Fica as a Vehicle for Social Commentary and Ritual Restoration of Innocence; Chapter 6 -- ""Let's Go F.B.!"": Metaphors of Cars and Corruption in China; Chapter 7 -- Barrio Metaxis: Ambivalent Aesthetics in Mexican-American Lowrider Cars; Chapter 8 -- Driving into the Light: Traversing Life and Death in a Lynching Reenactment by African-Americans; Afterword -- Quo Vadis?; Contributors. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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650 0 |a Transportation  |x Social aspects  |v Case studies. 
650 0 |a Material culture  |v Case studies. 
650 6 |a Véhicules  |x Aspect social  |v Études de cas. 
650 6 |a Transport  |x Aspect social  |v Études de cas. 
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