Dividually Driven
Hitchhiking is often articulated as a flight of fancy, a search for freedom and adventure. Its history runs parallel to that of the motor car and like this object of capricious consumption can be seen as a manifestation of supreme individualism. Hitching
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Hitchhiking “As someone who has hitchhiked herself a bit, back in the day, I read this monograph with great interest. Risk, adventure, and trust are three of the hearts of hitchhiking in this lively and novel book describing a fascinating cultural practice and modern form of mobility.” —Catherine Lutz, Thomas J. Watson Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology, Brown University, USA “Laviolette’s Hitchhiking is not intended to get you to your destination fast. If you can wait for the lift, however, you will be rewarded with stories of people and their places, enmeshed with song texts, culture theory and visual road signs. In the end, hitchhiking becomes far more than a mode of physical mobility. Rather, it’s a way of being in the world and an anthropological method—one that values the poetry and adventurousness of the journey.” —Peter Schweitzer, Professor of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria “In this enchanting and important book, Patrick Laviolette explores the art of hitchhiking in our times. In so doing he brilliantly demonstrates how hitchhiking is linked to the shared economy, individualism, collectivism, human rights, risk, fear, existential uncertainty as well as the phenomenology of landscapes, mobile museums, and social contexts. In Hitchhiking: Cultural Inroads Laviolette demonstrates powerfully and artfully how hitchhiking is a metaphor for living—and living well—in a troubled world. This book is a model for doing anthropology in the 21st century.” —Paul Stoller, Professor of Anthropology, West Chester University, USA, and author of: Yaya’s Story: The Quest for Well Being in the World (2014)
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Patrick Laviolette
Hitchhiking Cultural Inroads
Patrick Laviolette Department of Anthropology University College London London, UK
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