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Car Cultures
Engelsk Paperback
Car Cultures
Engelsk Paperback

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Anyone who assumes that a car is simply a means to get from point A to point B, or who even thinks that they know what a car is, should read this book. Profoundly shaped by culture, the car gives rise to a wide range of emotions, from guilt about the environment in the UK to aboriginal concerns with car corpses, to struggles to keep the creatures alive with everything but the proper spare parts in West Africa. Cars and their landscapes prove central to human life from its most intimate to the widest sense of global crisis, and are capable of inspiring epic passions. From road rage in Western Europe to the struggles of cab driving in Africa to the emergence of Black identity in the US, this book examines the essential humanity of the car, which includes the jealousies, gender differences, fears and moralities that cars give rise to. Firmly grounded in detailed ethnographic and historical scholarship, this is the first book to provide an informed sense of cars as one of the most familiar and significant forms of material culture.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9781859734070
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1859734073
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 mar 2001
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
159mm
Højde:
237mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
1 mar 2001
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge