Week # 4 - January 31, 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: EW: #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.
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