ABSTRACT
In people’s thinking, there are no physical barriers to where a car can go and there are no limits to what a car can endure. People use the car primarily for hunting, shopping, ceremonial travel, visiting family in hospital and jail. Some features of the car are directly related to the traditional power of men over fire. The problem of external influences poses itself concretely in the form of Western objects, most prominently the Community Toyota. Assignment of ownership to one Boss and accumulated ownership rights through use gives the Toyota a composite identity. On one level the Toyota is under the care of one individual and on the other it attracts many relationships through association with people. The car’s double identity becomes problematic: when it breaks down and needs major repairs or even replacing, or when a person who had used the car and was member of the Community dies.
