Week # 4 - September 18, 2008

How many anthropologists does it take to screw in a light-bulb? Culture codes and conceptualization of humor. Conditional and non-conditional jokes.

Readings for Week 4 & 5: 

Berger, Arthur Asa: Introduction: Humor, Psyche and Society.  In An Anatomy of
Humor. Transaction Publishers. 1998. Pp. 1-13.

Berger, Arthur Asa: A Glossary of the Techniques of Humor: Morphology of the Joke Tale. In An Anatomy of Humor.Transaction Publishers. 1998. Pp. 15-55.

Cohen, Ted: Jokes. Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters. The University of
Chicago Press. 1999. 

Rapaille, Clotaire: Introduction. The Birth of Notion. In The Culture Code. Broadway Books. 2006. Pp. 1-28.