ASAO Monograph #13

CLOWNING AS CRITICAL PRACTICE:
PERFORMANCE HUMOR IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC

Edited by William E. Mitchell

 

University of Pittsburgh Press 1992

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Introduction: Mother Folly in the Islands
William E. Mitchell

1. "Dance When I Die!": Context and Role in the Clowning of Murik Women
Kathleen Barlow

2. Exaggeration and Reversal: Clowning Among the Lusi-Kaliai
David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts

3. Clowning with Food: Mortuary Humor and Social Reproduction Among the North Mekeo
Mark S. Mosko

4. Reflections of an Anthropologist Who Mistook Her Husband for a Yam: Female Comedy on Tubetube
Martha Macintyre

5. Horrific Humor and Festal Farce: Carnival Clowning in Wape Society
William E. Mitchell

6. When She Reigns Supreme: Clowning and Culture in Rotuman Weddings
Vilsoni Hereniko

7. Where the Spirits Laugh Last: Comic Theater in Samoa
Caroline Sinavaiana