Author: Mitchell, William E. ; editor:
Title: Clowning as Critical Practice: Performance Humor in the South Pacific
Description: Pittsburgh, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, (1992). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, x,227 pp, Series: Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Monographs, No. 13.. ¶ PAPERBACK. Contents : "Dance when I die!": context and role in the clowning of Murik women / Kathleen Barlow -- Exaggeration and reversal: clowning among the Lusi-Kalai / David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts -- Clowning with food: mortuary humor and social reproduction among the north Mekeo / Mark S. Mosko -- Reflections of an anthropologist who mistook her husband for a yam: female comedy on Tubetube / Martha McIntyre -- Horrific humor and festal farce: carnival clowning in Wape society / William E. Mitchell -- When she reigns supreme: clowning and culture in Rotuman weddings / Vilsoni Hereniko -- Where the spirits laugh last: comic theater in Samoa / Caroline Sinavaiana.

Keywords: Melanesian Ethnography, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Papuan Papuans, South Pacific, Anthropology, Social Sociology, Ethnology, Clowning