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Examines joking relationships, children's and ethnic humor, social aspects of laughter, and humor and religion, lan

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Humor and Laughter: An Anthropological Approach
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Authoritarian Laughter explores the political history of the satire and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuan

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Presenting a cultural and interdisciplinary study of humor in Spain from the eighteenth century to the present day, this

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Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust argues that humor performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake

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Ancient philosophers considered question about laughter, humor, and comedy to be both philosophically interesting and im

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Most of us laugh at something funny multiple times during a typical day. Humor serves multiple purposes, and although th

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Most of us laugh at something funny multiple times during a typical day. Humor serves multiple purposes, and although th

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Why do people go to exhibitions, and what do they hope to gain from the experience? What would happen if people are enco

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Where lived experience of surroundings is shifting, visceral, and immersive, interpretation of social spaces tends to be

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Where lived experience of surroundings is shifting, visceral, and immersive, interpretation of social spaces tends to be

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Why do people go to exhibitions, and what do they hope to gain from the experience? Traditional understandings of exhibi

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