Jokes and their relation to society

✍ Scribed by Davies, Christie

• Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 244
• Series: Humor research 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Multidisciplinary in nature, this work should be of interest to scholars working the anthropology, sociology, folklore, social psychology, linguistics or literature, as well as to historians and philosophers

✦ Table of Contents

Content: ""Chapter 1. Introduction ""
""Chapter 2. Fooltowns: Traditional And Modern. Local, Regional And Ethnic Jokes About Stupidity ""
""Chapter 3. From The Milesians To The Milesians: The Irish-Pontian Joke, Its History And Its Absence In China And Japan ""
""Chapter 4. The Protestant Ethic And The Comic Spirit Of Capitalism ""
""Chapter 5. Stupidity And Rationality: Jokes From The Iron Cage ""
""Chapter 6. Humour For The Future And A Future For Humour ""
""Chapter 7. Ethnic Jokes About Alcohol: A Study Of The Humour Of Ambivalence "" ""Chapter 8. “Nasty� Legends, “Sick� Humour And Ethnic Jokes About Stupidity """"Chapter 9. Making Fun Of Work: Humour As Sociology In The Humorous Writings Of H. G. Wells ""
""Chapter 10: Conclusion ""
""Notes ""
""References ""
""Index ""

✦ Subjects

Wit and humor -- Social aspects. Humour -- Aspect social. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Humor (grappigheden) Sociale aspecten. Witz. Soziologie. Humor. Social movements.