TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davies,Christie
TI  - Jokes and Their Relations to Society
T2  - Humor Research [HR] Series
SN  - 9783110806144
AV  - PN6149.S62.D37 1998 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Berlin/Boston
PB  - De Gruyter, Inc.
KW  - Social movements
KW  - Wit and humor -- Social aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Fooltowns: Traditional and modern. Local, regional and ethnic jokes about stupidity -- Chapter 3. From the Milesians to the Milesians: The Irish-Pontian joke, its history and its absence in China and Japan -- Chapter 4. The Protestant ethic and the comic spirit of capitalism -- Chapter 5. Stupidity and rationality: Jokes from the iron cage -- Chapter 6. Humour for the future and a future for humour -- Chapter 7. Ethnic jokes about alcohol: A study of the humour of ambivalence -- Chapter 8. "Nasty" legends, "sick" humour and ethnic jokes about stupidity -- Chapter 9. Making fun of work: Humour as sociology in the humorous writings of H. G. Wells -- Chapter 10: Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
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