Clowning as critical practice : performance humor in the South Pacific / William E. Mitchell, editor.
Material type:
TextSeries: ASAO monograph ; no. 13.Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1992]Copyright date: ©1992Description: x, 227 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0822937344
- 9780822937340
- 0822954877
- 9780822954873
- Clowning as critical practice : Performance humour in the South Pacific
- 306.481 20
- DU740.42 .C595 1992
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction: Mother Folly in the Islands -- "Dance When I Die!": Context and Role in the Clowning of Murik Women -- Exaggeration and Reversal: Clowning Among the Lusi-Kaliai -- Clowning with Food: Mortuary Humor and Social Reproduction Among the North Mekeo -- Reflections of an Anthropologist Who Mistook Her Husband for a Yam: Female Comedy on Tubetube -- Horrific Humor and Festal Farce: Carnival Clowning in Wape Society -- When She Reigns Supreme: Clowning and Culture in Rotuman Weddings -- Where the Spirits Laugh Last: Comic Theater in Samoa -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.481 CLO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A071289B | ||
| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.481 CLO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A409992B |
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| 306.480973 ASH With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830 / | 306.480994 TOU Tourism, leisure, sport : critical perspectives / | 306.481 CLO Clowning as critical practice : performance humor in the South Pacific / | 306.481 CLO Clowning as critical practice : performance humor in the South Pacific / | 306.481 PAR Slow living / | 306.481 PAR Slow living / | 306.4810846 PAT Growing older : tourism and leisure behaviour of older adults / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction: Mother Folly in the Islands -- "Dance When I Die!": Context and Role in the Clowning of Murik Women -- Exaggeration and Reversal: Clowning Among the Lusi-Kaliai -- Clowning with Food: Mortuary Humor and Social Reproduction Among the North Mekeo -- Reflections of an Anthropologist Who Mistook Her Husband for a Yam: Female Comedy on Tubetube -- Horrific Humor and Festal Farce: Carnival Clowning in Wape Society -- When She Reigns Supreme: Clowning and Culture in Rotuman Weddings -- Where the Spirits Laugh Last: Comic Theater in Samoa -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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