SCHEDULE
Week
# 5 - June 1, 2010
"How many anthropologists does it take to screw in a light-bulb? Culture codes and conceptualization of humor. Conditional and non-conditional jokes.
Assignment # 1 (take home -- to be turned in on June 8, 2010).
Week
# 6 - June 3, 2010
"Thank You for Smoking." Social functions of humor. Humor as Social Control
and/or Social Conflict.
Assignment # 2 (take home -- to be turned in on June 15, 2010).
Week
# 7 - June 8, 2010
"Your culture or mine?" Cross-cultural
humor: joking relationships. Etic humor and emic humor.
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