Humour, comedy and laughter
Subtitle: obscenities, paradoxes, insights and the renewal of life
By: edited by Lidia Dina Sciama
Series: Social identities -- 8
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780857450746; 9781782385431
Subjects: Wit and humor; Cross-cultural studies; Comedy
Other titles: Humor, comedy and laughter
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lidia Dina Sciama; title: The Origins of Comic Performance in Adult-Child Interaction / Ian Wilkie and Matthew Saxton; title: Learning from the Ludic : Anthropological Fieldwork / Judith Okely; title: Humour as a Form of Cognition / Elisabeth Hsu; title: Comic Strips and the Making of American Identity / Ian Rakoff; title: Jokes without Frontiers, War without Tears : Humour, Stress and Power in an Anglo-German Bank Branch / Fiona Moore; title: Laughing at the Future : Cross-Cultural Science Fiction Films / Dolores Martinez; title: Male Dames and Female Boys : Cross Dressing in the English Pantomime / Shirley Ardener; title: The Function of Satire in Italian Popular Song / Glauco Sanga; title: Laughing at the Past among Venetian Islanders : Carlo Goldoni's Scuffles in Chioggia / Lidia Dina Sciama.