Week # 9 - October 23, 2008

"Your culture or mine?" Cross-cultural humor: joking relationships. Etic humor and emic humor.  Readings for Week 9: Apte, Mahadev L.: Joking Relationships. In Humor and Laughter. An Anthropological Approach. Cornell University Press. 1985. Pp. 29-66.

Davidheiser, Mark: Special Affinities and Conflict Resolution: West African Social

Institutions and Mediation. In Beyond Intractability. 2005-2006. 
www.beyondintractability.org/essay/joking_kinship 

Also review:
Polimeni, Joseph & Jeffrey P. Reiss: The First Joke: Exploring the Evolutionary Origins of Humor. In Evolutionary Psychology. Vol. 4. 2006. Pp. 347-366. 
www.human-nature.com./ep/downloads/ep04347366.pdf