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Week # 8 - March 1, 2007
"Your culture or mine?"
Cross-cultural humor: joking
relationships. Etic humor and emic humor.
Readings for Week 8:
EW: #8
Apte, Mahadev L.: Joking
Relationships. In “Humor and Laughter. An Anthropological Approach.”
Cornell University Press. 1985. Pp. 29-66. |
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Davidheiser, Mark: Special
Affinities and Conflict Resolution: West African Socia 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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