Histories of laughter and laughter in history
Subtitle: historisus
By: edited by Rafał Borysławski, [and 3 others]
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781443898546; 9781443897112
Subjects: Laughter; History; PSYCHOLOGY; Physiological Psychology
Description: Laughter is often no laughing matter, and, as such, it deserves continued scholarly attention as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon. This collection of essays is a meeting ground for scholars from several disciplines, including historians, philologists, and scholars of social sciences, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present. The common foci of the papers gathered in this volume are to examine laughter and its meanings, to reflect on the place of laughter in Western history and literatur.