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Joking --- Interpersonal relations --- Bible. --- Commentaries

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'The Whiteman' is one of the most powerful and pervasive symbols in contemporary American Indian cultures. Portraits of 'the Whiteman': linguistic play and cultural symbols among the Western Apache investigates a complex form of joking in which Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo-Americans and, by means of these characterizations, give audible voice and visible substance to their conceptions of this most pressing of social 'problems'. Keith Basso's essay, based on linguistic and ethnographic materials collected in Cibecue, a Western Apache community, provides interpretations of selected joking encounters to demonstrate how Apaches go about making sense of the behaviour of Anglo-Americans. This study draws on theory in symbolic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and the dramaturgical model of human communication developed by Erving Goffman. Although the assumptions and premises that shape these areas of inquiry are held by some to be quite disparate, this analysis shows them to be fully compatible and mutually complementary.

Apache wit and humor --- -Joking relationships --- Western Apache language --- Aravaipa language --- Coyotera language --- Coyotero language --- Apache languages --- Teasing relationships --- Interpersonal relations --- Kinship --- Teasing --- Apache literature --- History and criticism --- Joking relationships. --- Western Apache language. --- History and criticism. --- Joking relationships

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Fools and jesters --- History. --- Court fools --- Jesters --- Courts and courtiers --- Favorites, Royal --- Joking

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Stebbins begins with a history of stand-up comedy, giving vital background about the industry as it emerged and flourished in the United States and subsequently developed into a popular form of entertainment in Canada. He deals with the nature of comic performance in comedy rooms - cabarets designed specifically for stand-up comedy - and examines the career of the comic: how people become interested in comedy, how they progress as amateurs, how they survive on the road and how, sometimes, they become headliners and later writers for film and television. He also discusses the business of comedy: booking agents, comedy chains such as Yuk-Yuk's, room managers, and the comics themselves as entrepreneurs. As the first comprehensive study of a growing phenomenon, The Laugh-Makers will interest sociologists of humour and sociologists of occupations and will contribute to our understanding of Canadian popular culture.

Stand-up comedy --- Comedians --- Comedy --- Joking --- Comics (Persons) --- Stand-up comedians --- Entertainers --- Clowns

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French wit and humor --- French literature --- Joking --- History and criticism --- History --- Wit and humor --- French wit and humor - History and criticism --- French literature - 19th century - History and criticism --- Joking - France - History - 19th century