Humour, comedy and laughter : obscenities, paradoxes, insights and the renewal of life / / edited by Lidia Dina Sciama

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.481
• Soggetto topico: Wit and humor - Social aspects; Comedy
• Soggetto non controllato: Anthropology (General), Cultural Studies (General), Media Studies
• Persona (resp. second.): SciamaLidia D.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Humour, comedy and laughter
• ISBN: 1-78238-543-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811846903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Social identities ; ; Volume 8.