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

 
9781789200706: Humour, Comedy and Laughter: Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life
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ISBN 10 : 1789200709 ISBN 13 : 9781789200706
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2018

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

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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).

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1789200709
ISBN 13 
9781789200706
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
220
Éditeur
Sciama Lidia Dina
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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