Humour, Comedy and Laughter : Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life /

Anthropological writings on humor are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social processes that underlie joking and laughter. On the basis of a wide range of ethnographic and textual materials, the chapters examine the cognitive, so...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ardener, Shirley (Contribuidor), Hsu, Elisabeth (Contribuidor), Martinez, Dolores P. (Contribuidor), Moore, Fiona (Contribuidor), Okely, Judith (Contribuidor), Rakoff, Ian (Contribuidor), Sanga, Glauco (Contribuidor), Saxton, Matthew (Contribuidor), Sciama, Lidia Dina (Contribuidor, Editor ), Wilkie, Ian (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]
Colección:Social Identities ; 8
Temas:
Comedy.
Wit and humor > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
Anthropology (General), Cultural Studies (General), Media Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Origins of Comic Performance in Adult-Child Interaction
  • 2 Learning from the Ludic: Anthropological Fieldwork
  • 3 Humour as a Mode of Cognition
  • 4 Comic Strips and the Makings of American Identity
  • 5 Jokes without Frontiers, War without Tears: Humour, Stress and Power in an Anglo-German Bank Branch
  • 6 Laughing at the Future: Cross-Cultural Science Fiction Films
  • 7 The English Christmas Pantomime: Toying with History, Playing with Gender, Laughing at Today
  • 8 The Function of Satire in Italian Popular Song
  • 9 Laughing at the Past among Venetian Islanders: Carlo Goldoni's Scuffles in Chioggia
  • Index

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