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Perilous Laughter: Examples from Yuendumu, Central Australia

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dc.contributor.authorMusharbash, Yasmine
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-31T03:25:40Z
dc.date.issued2008-11
dc.description.abstractAgainst the background of popularisations of Freud's theory of laughter as anxiety release and Lustgewinn (pleasure gain), this paper presents some ethnographic examples of laughter from Yuendumu, central Australia, in which weakness and fear are considered to originate from laughter. Analysing some of the specific conceptual links that Warlpiri people make between laughter and weakness on the one hand, and between laughter and fear on the other, the paper makes a case for recognising both socio-culturally hyper- and hypocognised aspects of laughter.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.citationYasmine Musharbash (2008) Perilous Laughter: Examples from Yuendumu, Central Australia, Anthropological Forum, 18:3, 271-277, DOI: 10.1080/00664670802429388en_AU
dc.identifier.issn0066-4677en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/292268
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.rights© 2008 Discipline of Anthropology and Sociology, The University of Western Australiaen_AU
dc.sourceAnthropological Forumen_AU
dc.subjectAboriginal Peopleen_AU
dc.subjectLaughteren_AU
dc.subjectFearen_AU
dc.subjectWeaknessen_AU
dc.subjectBodyen_AU
dc.titlePerilous Laughter: Examples from Yuendumu, Central Australiaen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage277en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage271en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationMusharbash, Yasmine, The University of Western Australiaen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidMusharbash, Yasmine, u9902937en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.identifier.citationvolume18en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1080/00664670802429388en_AU
local.identifier.essn1469-2902en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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