Humour, Comedy and Laughter: Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life

ISBN 10 : 0857450743 ISBN 13 : 9780857450746

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2016

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lidia Dina Sciama (1932-2024) was former Director of the International Gender Studies Centre (formerly the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women), University of Oxford, where she was a Research Associate. Her publications include A Venetian Island: Environment, History and Change in Burano (Berghahn 2003).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857450743
• ISBN 13: 9780857450746
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Éditeur: Sciama Lidia Dina
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne