TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ardener,Shirley
AU  - Hsu,Elisabeth
AU  - Martinez,Dolores P.
AU  - Moore,Fiona
AU  - Okely,Judith
AU  - Rakoff,Ian
AU  - Sanga,Glauco
AU  - Saxton,Matthew
AU  - Sciama,Lidia Dina
AU  - Wilkie,Ian
TI  - Humour, Comedy and Laughter: Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life 
T2  - Social Identities
SN  - 9780857450746
AV  - PN6149.S62 H835 2016
U1  - 306.4/81 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Comedy
KW  - Wit and humor
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology (General), Cultural Studies (General), Media Studies
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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, social, and moral aspects of humor and its potential to bring about a sense of amity and mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people. Unfortunately, though, cartoons, jokes, and parodies can cause irremediable distress and offence. Nevertheless, contributors’ cross-cultural evidence confirms that the positive aspects of humor far outweigh the danger of deepening divisions and fueling hostilities
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782385431?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782385431
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782385431/original
ER  -