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Humor Takes the Stage

A Performance of Couples’ Humor

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“A theory of humor is not humorous” (Critchley, 2001): how then might a researcher theorize and re-present humor-in-action? In responding to this problem in my doctoral research, I turned to performance theory (Alexander, 2005; Gergen, 2001) as a means to bring to life particular research findings.

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  1. Griffith University, Australia

    elke emerald

  2. University of Waikato, New Zealand

    Robert E. Rinehart

  3. Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Antonio Garcia

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Talbot, W. (2016). Humor Takes the Stage. In: emerald, e., Rinehart, R.E., Garcia, A. (eds) Global South Ethnographies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-494-7_3

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