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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2016.
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Colección: | Social identities ;
v. 8. |
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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.