Politics of joking anthropological engagements / edited by Jana Kopelent Rehak and Susanna Trnka.

Other author Rehak, Jana Kopelentova, 1968-
Other author Trnka, Susanna.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
Descriptionpages cm
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Contents You've got to be joking : asserting the analytical value of humor and laughter in contemporary anthropology / Yasmine Musharbasch and John Carty -- Disaster humor in an age of truth-bending politics / Noelle Mole Liston -- "Joke" elections : satirical activism and political opposition in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbyte -- When the fearful becomes funny : joke-work in the midst of violence / Susanna Trnka -- Humor against forgetting : joking in the space of death / Jana Kopelent Rehak -- Chisasibi Cree hunters and missionaries : humor as evidence of tension / Fikret Berkes -- Mexican speech play : history and the psychological discourses of power / Jose Limon -- Quechua burlas, sexual farces? : toward "joking relationship" / Camille Riverti -- Trickster In the mirror of play and anthropological imagination / Vaclav Soukup -- Trump's two bodies : the trickster-wrestler as a political type / Morten Axel Pedersen -- "An army of comedy" : political jokes and tropic ambiguity in the Trump era / Morten Nielson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2018028170
ISBN9781138314047 (hbk : alk. paper)
ISBN9781138314054 (pbk : alk. paper)

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