Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Acknowledgments
1. Appropriate Incongruity
2. To Skin an Elephant: On the Presumption of Aggression in Humor
3. Jokes and the Discourse on Disaster
4. On the Structure of a Humorous Repertoire
5. Redundancy in Repertoire
6. Rechnitzer Rejects: An Unorthodox Humor of Modern Orthodoxy
7. Between Jokes and Tales
8. Freud and Humor: Analytic Reflections
9. The People of the Joke
10. Self-Degrading Jokes and Tales
11. Dyadic Traditions
Notes
Index
Biography
Elliott Oring is professor emeritus of anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles. He is a member of the International Society for Humor Studies and a fellow of the American Folklore Society. He has published widely in the areas of folklore, humor and symbolism, and is the author of numerous books including The Jokes of Sigmund Freud, Humor and the Individual and Engaging Humor.
