senior thesis celebration presentation
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What is Humor?
Process of stimuli, cognitive activity, and behavioral response
Relational, relative, relevant
Expressive and experiential
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Performance
Theory
Humor performances are not theatrical practices
“Making culture” through cultural performance (Hamera and Madison 2006:xii)
Living Drama: Act, Scene, Agent, Agency, and Purpose
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Agency Theory
“We make ourselves, but not under conditions of our own choosing” (Kockelman 2007:375)
Agency = flexibility, accountability, knowledge and power
The Agent as Performer
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The
Psychological
Approach
Humor is “The highest of…defensive processes” (Freud 1960:290)
Anxiety and relief
Hostility and superiority/disparagement approaches
Social psychology
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The “Updated”
Psychological
Approach
The Unconscious & caricature = Cultural performance and control
Anxiety release and pleasure gain =
Dynamic, responsible performance
Hostility and disparagement =
Inequality and “re-making”
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The Joking Relationship
Approach
Radcliffe-Brown: the founding father
Standardized structure; kinship
OR:
Relations as “not highly determined” (Freedman 1977:155)
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The “Updated”
Joking Relationship
Approach
Opposing structures (joking and avoidance) =
enactment of culture, not structure
agency elevated over structure
Intimacy and hostility; “laughing with” and “laughing at” =
expression, boundaries, and relational worlds
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Takeaway
Points
Joking relationship and psychological approaches do not do justice to anthropological methods
Humor is “no laughing matter”:
Lack of context
Cannot “laugh off” theories of humor
Targeting cultural complexity
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Thank You!
Apte (1985) Burke (1945) Kockelman (2007) Provine (2000) Hall (1968) Turner (1982) Raskin (2008) Hamera and
Madison (2006) Callinicos (2004) Seizer (2011) Martin (2007) Freud (1960) Radcliffe-Brown
(1940; 1949) Freedman (1977) Redmond (2008) Garde (2008) Musharbash (2008) Dwyer and
Minnegal (2008) Alexeyeff (2008) Beckett (2008) Morton (2008)
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