Clowning As Critical Practice: Performance Humor in the South Pacific
by: Mitchell, William E. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Pittsburgh PA, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 227 pages. 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. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.