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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 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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Jokes and their relation to society, Christie Davies
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- Released
- 1998
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- Title
- Jokes and their relation to society
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Christie Davies
- Publisher
- Mouton de Gruyter
- Released
- 1998
- ISBN10
- 3110161044
- ISBN13
- 9783110161045
- Series
- Humor research
- Category
- Social sciences
- Description
- Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 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