Humour, Comedy and Laughter

Humour, Comedy and LaughterAnthropological writings on humor are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social processes that underlie joking and laughter. On the basis of a wide range of ethnographic and textual materials, the chapters examine the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humor and its potential to bring about a sense of amity and mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile

Cayce's medical and psychological advice is shown to be well ahead of his time in many respects

and the wider disciplines of philosophy

It begins by providing an overview of the legal framework and authorization of plant-derived plant protection products

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the hundreds of thousands of humans held back from the nation’s progress toward modernization

changing frequency and intensity of wildfires

these previously unpublished essays give the reader a glimpse of the fecund and articulated philosophical work of women in the Italian context-a context which has not been and still is not always benign toward women's distinctive originality and creativity

She begins by examining the poetic educational context in which Plato is writing and then moves on to the main lines of argument and how they depend upon a variety of uses of the imagination

seven original essays

Celebrates the first exhibition devoted to the finely crafted and researched costumes

ranging from the restoration of vintage buses to the materials used in the latest supercars

like chemical pesticides