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"The essays in this collection offer fresh perspectives on the social role of transportation. I appreciated the weight given to Pacific cultures, which are not as common in conversations about mobility writ large. Though they do undoubtedly use anthropological methods and ask anthropological questions, they also model innovative ways for discussing how technologies enable their drivers and passengers to engage in an embodied relationship to the past." - Technology and Culture
..".the book succeeds in demonstrating that vehicles of all sorts may powerfully affect our ways of looking at the world, even as they help us travel through it." - Transfers
"This edited volume compiles a set of original ethno-graphic case studies focusing on the diverse ways vehicles that convey people through geospatial territory and also convey metaphorical meanings and constructions of the moral...while there has been plenty of attention given to what vehicles signify, there has been little given to how vehicles signify, which is precisely where this book." - Anthropos
"This volume, Vehicles, is exceptionally important not only for anthropology but for other scientific fields as well. It addresses a core human activity, driving, which appears likely to become a relic of, primarily, the 20th century." - Anthropological Notebooks
"This book offers ethnographic journeys into the daily work of cultural imaginations by giving attention to what is generally neglected: their vehicles. Not only functional supports or futile material dresses, cars, boats or planes are here delightedly addressed as morale-boosting devices engaged in situated social relations... These essays show that vehicular units are always participation units--they are always vernacular units of cultural agency." - Pierre Lanoy, Université Libre de Bruxelles
..".An excellent and original volume, a fine example of what comparative anthropology can achieve. Furthermore, in addition to its main topic and objectives (about particular metaphors, what they 'do' and how they 'work'), it addresses key issues in the study of objects, material culture, and techniques, namely the involvement of materiality in non-verbal communication." - Pierre Lemonnier, Université d'Aix-Marseille
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Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. On-the-ground vehicles offer themselves as rich metaphors for the moral imagination, for thinking about ethical dimensions of the social. Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures, from canoes in Papua New Guinea to cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern Europe. Seller Inventory # B9781785337512
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Book Description Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. Über den Autorrnrnn David Lipset is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Papua New Guinea since 1981. His most recent book is called Yabar: Alienations of . Seller Inventory # 448320897