دانلود کتاب The Politics of Joking: Anthropological Engagements

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Comic legacy and satirical voice in anthropological text
The Politics of Joking: ambiguity, incongruity and absurdity
References
1. You’ve got to be joking: Asserting the analytical value of humour and laughter in contemporary anthropology
Acknowledgment
Notes
References
2. Disaster humor in an age of truth-bending politics
The humor of mediatized politics, disaster, and the supernatural
Vampire earthquakes and critiquing disaster management
Conclusion: disaster and the absurd
Notes
References
3. “Joke” elections: Satirical activism and political opposition in Lithuania’s electoral politics
“Joke” elections
Satirical activism
Conclusion
Notes
Notes
References
4. When the fearful becomes funny: Joke-work in the midst of violence
The violence of May 2000
Specters of uncertainty
The fearful familiar
George Speight and other jokes
Theories of ethnic humor
Incongruity and repression
Jokes, dreams and the uncanny
Liberating incongruity
Creating disorder in an already disorderly universe
Questioning racial imaginaries through humor
Conclusion: knowing when to laugh and when to cry
Notes
References
5. Humor against forgetting: Joking in the space of death
Humor as a method of inquiry
Joking relations
The joke
Performing in the place of hell
Humor against forgetting
Conclusion
Notes
References
6. Chisasibi Cree hunters and missionaries: Humor as evidence of tension
Reverend Walton: influential Christian
Cree–missionary relations: the Cree side of the story
Cree–missionary relations re-appraised
The Cree view of Christianity and traditional practice
Conclusions
Notes
References
7. Mexican speech play: History and the psychological discourses of power
Mexico: the frozen revolution
Mexican speech play: the historical emergence of interpretation
Interpretation and ideological formation
Analysis
Conclusion
Notes
References
8. The flesh of joking relationships: A study of Quechua sexual farce
Fieldwork
Quechua farces and joking relationships
State of the art
What does one do while teasing?
A polemic stake
1. Future lovers’ routine: a farce between men and women
2. Future mother-in-law and daughter-in-law routine: a female farce
Notes
References
9. Trickster in the mirror of play and anthropological imagination
Play as an attribute of humanity
Trickster as a timeless creator and a product of play and the comic
Trickster as a paradoxical hero of human evolution
Notes
References
10. Trump’s two bodies: The trickster-wrestler as a political type
Introduction
From big men to great men
From exemplars to tricksters
Why Trump is not (just) a trickster
Trump as American wrestler
Conclusion
References
11. “An army of comedy”: Political jokes and tropic ambiguity in the Trump era
Introduction
The appropriate incongruity of stand-up routines
Tropic ambiguity
Comedic contractions
How jokes die
The shedding of interpretation
Conclusion
References
Afterword: Not all fun and games: The force of humor in
political life
Incongruity and ambiguity
The power of affect
Sociality, temporality, and contextual knowledge
Acknowledgements
References
Index