TY - BOOK AU - Sciama,Lidia Dina TI - Humour, Comedy and Laughter: Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life T2 - Social Identities Series SN - 9781782385431 AV - PN6149.S62 H835 2016 U1 - 306.4/81 PY - 2016/// CY - New York, NY PB - Berghahn Books, Incorporated KW - Wit and humor-Social aspects-Cross-cultural studies KW - Comedy KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Humour, Comedy and Laughter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Origins of Comic Performance in Adult--Child Interaction -- 2 Learning from the Ludic: Anthropological Fieldwork -- 3 Humour as a Mode of Cognition -- 4 Comic Strips and the Makings of American Identity -- 5 Jokes without Frontiers, War without Tears -- 6 Laughing at the Future -- 7 The English Christmas Pantomime -- 8 The Function of Satire in Italian Popular Song -- 9 Laughing at the Past among Venetian Islanders -- Index N2 - No detailed description available for "Humour, Comedy and Laughter" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4386527 ER -