Week # 8 - February 29, 2012
“Your culture or mine?”
Cross-cultural humor: joking relationships. Etic and emic humor.
Diversity focus: Replacing kinship joking relationship with non-kinship based relationship in the U.S.A. and creating non-institutionalized and voluntary (or is it?) group identities in the U.S.
• What is cross-cultural and what is inter-cultural within American culture.
• Formulating new joking relationships (e.g., employer vs employee; senior groups) in the U.S.A. |
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Readings for Week 8:
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
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