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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Ardener, Shirley,; Hsu, Elisabeth,; Martinez, Dolores P.,; Moore, Fiona,; Okely, Judith,; Rakoff, Ian,; Sanga, Glauco,; Saxton, Matthew,; Sciama, Lidia Dina,; Wilkie, Ian,
• HerausgeberIn: Sciama, Lidia Dina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Social Identities ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782385431; 9783110998221
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782385431?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Lidia Dina Sciama.

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