Lidia Dina (Hrsg.) Sciama

Humour, Comedy and Laughter

Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life

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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 hu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78238-543-1
EAN: 9781782385431
Produktnummer: 20454423
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 220 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 7'144 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 8

Über den Autor

Lidia Dina Sciama is former Director of the International Gender Studies Centre (formerly the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women), University of Oxford, where she is currently a Research Associate. She is the author of A Venetian Island: Environment, History and Change in Burano (Berghahn 2003).