Silence as the Root of American Indian Humor: Further Meditations on the Comic Vision of Anishinaabe Culture and Religion

Autor/in	Gross, Lawrence W.
Titel	Silence as the Root of American Indian Humor: Further Meditations on the Comic Vision of Anishinaabe Culture and Religion
Quelle	In: American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 31 (2007) 2, S.69-85 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-6463
Schlagwörter	Religion; Humor; American Indians; American Indian Education; Cognitive Processes; Cultural Influences; Case Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Humoristische Darstellung; American Indian; Indianer; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study
Abstract	The literature on humor generally focuses on the nature of incongruities as the root of humor. In this article, the author takes the examination of humor one step further by meditating on the mental frame involved with humor. He is interested in what cultural experiences would predispose the individuals within a given culture to have a sense of humor in the first place. He applied Morreall's notion of the comic vision to Anishinaabe culture and religion in a previous study of Anishinaabe humor. Drawing on the work of a number of researchers, he argues for a connection between silence and humor in American Indian cultures, with the Anishinaabe serving as a case study. (Contains 40 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10