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| Other authors / contributors: | Lipset, David, 1951- editor.
Handler, Richard, 1950- editor.
Auslander, Mark, contributor.
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| ISBN: | 9781782383765
178238376X
1782383751
9781782383758
9781782383758
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| Notes: | Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 N.
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| Other form: | Print version: Vehicles : cars, canoes, and other metaphors of moral ambivalence. New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, ©2014 viii, 214 pages 9781782383758
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