"This book offers ethnographic journeys into the daily work of cultural imaginations by giving attention to what is generally neglected: their vehicles. Not only functional supports or futile material dresses, cars, boats or planes are here delightedly addressed as morale-boosting devices engaged in situated social relations... These essays show that vehicular units are always participation units-they are always vernacular units of cultural agency." - Pierre Lanoy, Universite Libre de Bruxelles

..".An excellent and original volume, a fine example of what comparative anthropology can...