American Car
Anti-technological Bias
Automobile Habitation
automobility studies
Car Culture
car cultures
Car Upholstery
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Central Land Council
environmental impact cars
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essential humanity
ethnographic research methods
Fast Lane
Freight Transport Policies
global car culture analysis
historical scholarship
Honey Ant
identity formation vehicles
IMF's Structural Adjustment Programme
IMF’s Structural Adjustment Programme
Ivory Coast
material culture
mobility sociology
Nice Company
Outstation Communities
Pentecostal Charismatic Churches
post-World War Ii
Road Rage
Socio-technical Network
South East Norway
Terraplane Blues
Toyota Landcruiser
transportation anthropology
UK Government Policy
Warlpiri Society
West Africa
Western Things
Wider Issues
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781859734070
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: 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.
Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology, University College London. Recent books include 'A Theory of Shopping' and 'The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach' (with Don Slater).
