Vehicles cars, canoes, and other metaphors of moral imagination / edited by David Lipset and Richard Handler.
| Other author | Lipset, David, 1951- |
| Other author | Handler, Richard, 1950- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Berghahn Books, [2014] |
| Description | viii, 214 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : Charon's boat and other vehicles of moral imagination / David Lipset -- Living canoes : vehicles of moral imagination among the Murik of Papua New Guinea / David Lipset -- Cars, persons, and streets : Erving Goffman and the analysis of traffic rules / Richard Handler -- It's not an airplane, it's my baby? : using a gender metaphor to make sense of old warplanes in North America / Kent Wayland -- Is female to male as lightweight cars are to sports cars? : gender metaphors and cognitive schemas in recessionary Japan / Joshua Hotaka Roth -- Little cars that make us cry : Yugoslav Fica as a vehicle for social commentary and ritual restoration of innocence / Marko Živković -- "Let's go F.B!" : metaphors of cars and corruption in China / Beth E. Notar -- Barrio metaxis : ambivalent aesthetics in lowrider cars of Mexican-Americans / Ben Chappell -- Driving back into the light : traversing life and death in a lynching reenactment by African-Americans / Mark Auslander -- Afterword : quo vadis? / James W. Fernandez. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013050719 |
| ISBN | 9781782383758 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781782383765 (institutional ebook) |