Humour, Comedy and Laughter: Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life - Social Identities - - Books - Berghahn Books - 9780857450746 - April 1, 2016
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Humour, Comedy and Laughter: Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life - Social Identities

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Anthropological writings on humour are not numerous, but they do contain insight into the social processes that underlie joking and laughter. This volume examines the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people.

216 pages, 20 illustrations, 2 tables

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Released April 1, 2016
ISBN13 9780857450746
Publishers Berghahn Books
Pages 220
Dimensions 236 × 160 × 20 mm   ·   521 g
Language English  
Editor Sciama, Lidia Dina