Gebundenes Buch

Vehicles

Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

Herausgeber: Lipset, David; Handler, Richard

Beschreibung

A collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures Examines key issues in the study of objects, material culture and techniques Provides a new perspective on how vehicles are understood in relation to the dynamics of culture, politics and history

Autor

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 Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity (2017). He has also published articles on a variety of topics about changing masculinity in Murik culture. He is currently working on a book on concept of place in the Anthropology of the Anthropocene.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781782383758
• ISBN-10: 1782383751
• Artikelnr.: 41600075