Bicycle Book Flashcards
What should we take away from this book?
A sense of how anthropologist work within the field of material culture. it’s an approach that allows material culture to be the starting point to examine the wider issues of our lives and in so doing so understand the role that material culture plays. For example by examining the bicycle issues of health sustainability and globalization can be addressed at once
What does this book address
This book addresses current issues that are part of most large citys struggles with transportation laws and the need to address pollution and congestion in a sustainable manner.
How does the involvement of civic officials and citizens shape people’s relationship with the bicycles use. In Amsterdam?
Downtown areas of amsterdam are shut down to car traffic. Common people say biking is fater than other forms of transportation but do not consider themselves cyclists.
How does the involvement of civic officials and citizens shape people’s relationship with the bicycles use. In Burlington?
In 1973 a law was passed legitimizing the bicycle as a “vehicle”. People saw it as an alternative to the automobile.
How does the involvement of civic officials and citizens shape people’s relationship with the bicycles use. In Bogota?
In Columbia the traffic was so bad and the population so dense that bicycles were in use for a large part of bogatas history. The mockus and Penalosa administration made a lot of changes in the politics like raising gas taxes, advocating bicycles and solving transportation problems. Common people are positive toward cycling and its benefits to the ecosystem
What does vivanco explore.
Vivianco. Shows us that there is much to be learned by looking at the material culture around us. He reexamines the bicycle considering it’s past present and future. He compares how the bicycle is viewed as a social political and useful object in different cultures around the world Ex. Amsterdam and Bogotá
What is the authors main argument?
The author believes that bicycles are superior mode of transportation for the future than cars because when compared they have more health benefits, space benefits and ecological benefits
Explain the five dimensions in a bicycles multidimensionality.
As a physical thing
As a thing with a past a present and the future
As a commodity that circulates through complex political economic relationships
As an object of cultivated desire
As a useful possession
