| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Social identities ; volume 8 |
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Social identities ; v. 8.
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| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wit and humor -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Comedy.
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comedy plays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Comedy
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Wit and humor -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sciama, Lidia D., editor, contributor
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| ISBN |
9781782385431 |
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1782385436 |
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9781789200706 |
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1789200709 |
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