1st Edition

Car Cultures

Edited By Daniel Miller Copyright 2001
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1 Driven Societies 2 The Life and Death of Cars: Private Vehicles on the Pitjanjatjara Lands, South Australia 3 The Invisible Car: The Cultural Purification of Road Rage 4 Driving While Black Paul Gilroy 81 5 Raggare and the Panic of Mobility: Modernity and Hybridity in Sweden 6 Driving, Drinking and Daring in Norway 7 Kwaku’s Car: The Struggles and Stories of a Ghanaian Long-Distance Taxi-Driver , 8 Soundscapes of the Car: A Critical Ethnography of Automobile Habitation 9 Negotiating Car Use in Everyday Life Simon Maxwell 203 10 The Colonizing Vehicle

Biography

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).