Vehicles

David Lipset is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and has conducted fieldwork among the Murik Lakes people in Papua New Guinea since 1981. He is the author of two books, Gregory Bateson: Legacy of a Scientist (1982) and Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary (1997) as well as articles on culture, masculinity and modernity in Melanesia. His most recent book (co-edited with Paul Roscoe) is Echoes of the Tambaran: Masculinity, History and the Subject in the Work of Donald F. Tuzin (2011). Richard Handler is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, where he is Director of the Program in Global Development Studies. He has written extensively on nationalism and the politics of culture, museums, and the history of anthropology. His most recent book is Critics Against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Society (2005).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Charon's Boat and Other Vehicles of Moral ImaginationDavid LipsetPART I: PERSONS AS VEHICLESChapter 1. Living Canoes: Vehicles of Moral Imagination among the Murik of Papua New GuineaDavid LipsetChapter 2. Cars, Persons, and Streets: Erving Goffman and the Analysis of Traffic RulesRichard HandlerPART II: VEHICLES AS GENDERED PERSONSChapter 3. "It's Not an Airplane, It's My Baby": Using a Gender Metaphor to Make Sense of Old Warplanes in North AmericaKent WaylandChapter 4. Is Female to Male as Lightweight Cars Are to Sports Cars?: Gender Metaphors and Cognitive Schemas in Recessionary JapanJoshua Hotaka RothPART III: EQUIVOCAL VEHICLESChapter 5. Little Cars that Make Us Cry: Yugoslav Fića as a Vehicle for Social Commentary and Ritual Restoration of InnocenceMarko ŽivkovićChapter 6. “Let’s Go F.B.!”: Metaphors of Cars and Corruption in ChinaBeth E. NotarChapter 7. Barrio Metaxis: Ambivalent Aesthetics in Mexican American Lowrider CarsBen ChappellChapter 8. Driving into the Light: Traversing Life and Death in a Lynching Reenactment by African-AmericansMark AuslanderAfterword: Quo Vadis?James W. FernandezNotes on ContributorsIndex

"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