ISBN:
9781782385431
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
220 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Social Identities 8
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Lidia Dina Sciama -- Chapter 1. The Origins of Comic Performance in Adult-Child Interaction -- Ian Wilkie and Matthew Saxton -- Chapter 2. Learning from the Ludic: Anthropological Fieldwork -- Judith Okely -- Chapter 3. Humour as a Form of Cognition -- Elisabeth Hsu -- Chapter 4. Comic Strips and the Making of American Identity -- Ian Rakoff -- Chapter 5. Jokes without Frontiers, War without Tears: Humour, Stress and Power in an Anglo-German Bank Branch -- Fiona Moore -- Chapter 6. Laughing at the Future: Cross-Cultural Science Fiction Films -- Dolores Martinez -- Chapter 7. The English Pantomime: Toying with History, Playing with Gender, Laughing at Today -- Shirley Ardener -- Chapter 8. The Function of Satire in Italian Popular Song -- Glauco Sanga -- Chapter 9. Laughing at the Past among Venetian Islanders: Carlo Goldoni's Scuffles in Chioggia -- Lidia Dina Sciama --
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