Humour, comedy and laughter : obscenities, paradoxes, insights and the renewal of life /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sciama, Lidia D. (Editor , Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Colección:Social identities ; v. 8.
Temas:
Wit and humor > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Comedy.
Humour > Aspect social > Études transculturelles.
Comédie.
comedy plays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Comedy
Wit and humor > Social aspects
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Lidia Dina Sciama
  • The Origins of Comic Performance in Adult-Child Interaction / Ian Wilkie and Matthew Saxton
  • Learning from the Ludic : Anthropological Fieldwork / Judith Okely
  • Humour as a Form of Cognition / Elisabeth Hsu
  • Comic Strips and the Making of American Identity / Ian Rakoff
  • Jokes without Frontiers, War without Tears : Humour, Stress and Power in an Anglo-German Bank Branch / Fiona Moore
  • Laughing at the Future : Cross-Cultural Science Fiction Films / Dolores Martinez
  • Male Dames and Female Boys : Cross Dressing in the English Pantomime / Shirley Ardener
  • The Function of Satire in Italian Popular Song / Glauco Sanga
  • Laughing at the Past among Venetian Islanders : Carlo Goldoni's Scuffles in Chioggia / Lidia Dina Sciama.

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