{"product_id":"vehicles-david-lipset-9781785337512","title":"Vehicles: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eVehicles \u003c\/em\u003epresents 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Lipset\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1785337513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781785337512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.00h x 8.80w x 0.60d","brand":"David Lipset","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46906932691199,"sku":"9781785337512","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ec988b2-730f-415b-b9c0-96485cd492cb.jpg?v=1748771811","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vehicles-david-lipset-9781785337512","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}