Clowning as Critical Practice: Performance Humor in the South Pacific

Mitchell, William E. ; editor:

Published by Univ. of Pittsburgh Press (1992), Pittsburgh, 1992

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23x15cm, x,227 pp, Series: Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Monographs, No. 13. PAPERBACK. Contents : "Dance when I die!": context and role in the clowning of Murik women / Kathleen Barlow -- Exaggeration and reversal: clowning among the Lusi-Kalai / David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts -- Clowning with food: mortuary humor and social reproduction among the north Mekeo / Mark S. Mosko -- Reflections of an anthropologist who mistook her husband for a yam: female comedy on Tubetube / Martha McIntyre -- Horrific humor and festal farce: carnival clowning in Wape society / William E. Mitchell -- When she reigns supreme: clowning and culture in Rotuman weddings / Vilsoni Hereniko -- Where the spirits laugh last: comic theater in Samoa / Caroline Sinavaiana.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Clowning as Critical Practice: Performance Humor in the South Pacific
• Publisher: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press (1992), Pittsburgh
• Publication Date: 1992
• Binding: orig.wrappers
• Seller catalogs:
  • Melanesian Ethnography