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Title Humour, comedy and laughter : obscenities, paradoxes, insights and the renewal of life / edited by Lidia Dina Sciama.
Alternative Title Humor, comedy and laughter
Publisher New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.



Descript 1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) : illustrations.
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Contents Introduction / Lidia Dina Sciama -- The Origins of Comic Performance in Adult-Child Interaction / Ian Wilkie and Matthew Saxton -- Learning from the Ludic : Anthropological Fieldwork / Judith Okely -- Humour as a Form of Cognition / Elisabeth Hsu -- Comic Strips and the Making of American Identity / Ian Rakoff -- Jokes without Frontiers, War without Tears : Humour, Stress and Power in an Anglo-German Bank Branch / Fiona Moore -- Laughing at the Future : Cross-Cultural Science Fiction Films / Dolores Martinez -- Male Dames and Female Boys : Cross Dressing in the English Pantomime / Shirley Ardener -- The Function of Satire in Italian Popular Song / Glauco Sanga -- Laughing at the Past among Venetian Islanders : Carlo Goldoni's Scuffles in Chioggia / Lidia Dina Sciama.
ISBN 9781782385431 (electronic bk.)
1782385436 (electronic bk.)
9780857450746
0857450743
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Series Social identities ; volume 8
Social identities ; v. 8.
Subject Wit and humor -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Comedy.
Alt author Sciama, Lidia D., editor, contributor.
Alternative Title Humor, comedy and laughter
Descript 1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) : illustrations.
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Introduction / Lidia Dina Sciama -- The Origins of Comic Performance in Adult-Child Interaction / Ian Wilkie and Matthew Saxton -- Learning from the Ludic : Anthropological Fieldwork / Judith Okely -- Humour as a Form of Cognition / Elisabeth Hsu -- Comic Strips and the Making of American Identity / Ian Rakoff -- Jokes without Frontiers, War without Tears : Humour, Stress and Power in an Anglo-German Bank Branch / Fiona Moore -- Laughing at the Future : Cross-Cultural Science Fiction Films / Dolores Martinez -- Male Dames and Female Boys : Cross Dressing in the English Pantomime / Shirley Ardener -- The Function of Satire in Italian Popular Song / Glauco Sanga -- Laughing at the Past among Venetian Islanders : Carlo Goldoni's Scuffles in Chioggia / Lidia Dina Sciama.
ISBN 9781782385431 (electronic bk.)
1782385436 (electronic bk.)
9780857450746
0857450743
Series Social identities ; volume 8
Social identities ; v. 8.
Subject Wit and humor -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Comedy.
Alt author Sciama, Lidia D., editor, contributor.
Alternative Title Humor, comedy and laughter

Subject Wit and humor -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Comedy.
Descript 1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) : illustrations.
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Introduction / Lidia Dina Sciama -- The Origins of Comic Performance in Adult-Child Interaction / Ian Wilkie and Matthew Saxton -- Learning from the Ludic : Anthropological Fieldwork / Judith Okely -- Humour as a Form of Cognition / Elisabeth Hsu -- Comic Strips and the Making of American Identity / Ian Rakoff -- Jokes without Frontiers, War without Tears : Humour, Stress and Power in an Anglo-German Bank Branch / Fiona Moore -- Laughing at the Future : Cross-Cultural Science Fiction Films / Dolores Martinez -- Male Dames and Female Boys : Cross Dressing in the English Pantomime / Shirley Ardener -- The Function of Satire in Italian Popular Song / Glauco Sanga -- Laughing at the Past among Venetian Islanders : Carlo Goldoni's Scuffles in Chioggia / Lidia Dina Sciama.
Alt author Sciama, Lidia D., editor, contributor.
ISBN 9781782385431 (electronic bk.)
1782385436 (electronic bk.)
9780857450746
0857450743

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