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The Reservations of the Funny: Ethics of Studying Funny Communication
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Liz Sills
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December 10, 2021
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Studying the funny trends within historically marginalized populations has historically been used as a means of making them seem nonthreatening to dominant cultures. Scholars, furthermore, have often applied dominant-culture contexts toward reading minority artifacts without taking the time to understand the premises for other cultures’ funny enthymemes (Epp 2010; Price 1994). This paper proposes two solutions to the dilemma of recognizing the importance of representing marginalized populations’ humor in the scholarly canon but also studying those funny artifacts with a mind toward ethics, using Native American humor as a representative case study.
Published Online: 2021-12-10
Published in Print: 2021-10-25
© 2021 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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