Week # 10 - October 30, 2008

My culture, not yours! Ethnic humor: its nature and functions. Popularity and demise. Part 1.   Readings for Week 10 & 11:

Apte, Mahadev L.: Humor, Ethnicity, and Intergroup Relations. In Humor and Laughter. An Anthropological Approach. Cornell University Press. 1985. Pp.108-148.

Davis, Christie: Who Gets Called Stupid? In Ethnic Humor. Indiana University Press. 1996. Pp. 41-83.

Ziv, Avner: Humor in Israel. In National Styles of Humor. Edited by Avner Ziv. Greenwood Press. 1988. Pp. 113-132.