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Humour, Comedy and Laughter : Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life / ed. by Lidia Dina Sciama.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Social Identities ; 8Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780857450746
  • 9781782385431
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4/81 23
LOC classification:
  • PN6149.S62 H835 2016
  • PN6149.S62
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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
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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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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

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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