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[thirsty moore]

Has this been studied?

[beetsnotbeats]

Originally posted by econo:
  Has this been studied?

OK, so I punched up JSTOR (available to us college types) and entered the following criteria:
  All of these words: survival crazy laughter
  At least one of these words: festival party humor
  These Discipline(s) and/or Journal(s): Anthropology Philosophy Psychology Sociology
 
 39 articles, including:
 Laughing Matters: Comic Tradition in India
 Wit and Politics: An Essay on Laughter and Power
 The Jokes of an Irishman in a Multiethnic Urban Environment
 The Production of Emotion and Social Control: Taunting, Anger, and the Rukka in the Faeroe Islands
 Joint Action on the Wild Side of Manhattan: The Power of the Cultural Center on an Educational Alternative
 Control Over Policy by Attendants in a Mental Hospital
 Numskull Clans and Tales: Their Structure and Function in Asymmetrical Joking Relationships
 A Classification for Shaggy Dog Stories
 
 and so on....

[Jaguär]

I sort of studied this while I was at Johns Hopkins and it's way too boring to post about here. So, quite simply, the answer to your question is no, or you would prefer no to. Considering that the human race is pretty resilient, probably closer to you would prefer not to.

[thirsty moore]

Perhaps this man knows.
 
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