Elliott Oring

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According to Wikipedia, Elliott Oring is an American author of academic books primarily relating to the topics of folklore, humor, and cultural symbolism. Oring is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles, and serves on the Editorial Board of Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. In 2010-2011 he was President of the International Society for Humor Studies.

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Elliott Oring's Published Works

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Jokes And Their Relations (1992) (89)
Folk Groups And Folklore Genres: An Introduction (1987) (81)
The Muhammad cartoons and humor research: A collection of essays (2008) (64)
Legendry and the Rhetoric of Truth (2008) (51)
The Arts, Artifacts, and Artifices of Identity (1994) (46)
Jokes and Their Relation to Society (2000) (39)
Jokes and the Discourse on Disaster (1987) (39)
Between jokes and tales: on the nature of punch lines (1989) (34)
Humor and the suppression of sentiment (1994) (34)
Folk Groups And Folklore Genres (1989) (27)
Parsing the joke: The General Theory of Verbal Humor and appropriate incongruity (2011) (26)
Risky Business Political Jokes under Repressive Regimes (2016) (23)
Three Functions of Folklore: Traditional Functionalism as Explanation in Folkloristics (1976) (22)
Israeli Humor: The Content and Structure of the Chizbat of the Palmah (1983) (20)
The People of the Joke: On the Conceptualization of a Jewish Humor (1983) (20)
Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor (2016) (20)
Folk Groups And Folklore Genres Reader (1991) (20)
First Prize: Fifteen Years! An Annotated Collection of Romanian Political Jokes (1987) (19)
Humor and political correctness (1997) (17)
Humor in anthropology and folklore (2008) (15)
Victor Turner, Sigmund Freud, and the Return of the Repressed (1993) (13)
Anti Anti-"Folklore" (1998) (12)
On Analyzing Fairy Tales : Little Red Riding Hood Revisited (1987) (11)
Memetics and Folkloristics: The Applications (2014) (9)
Appropriate incongruities: Genuine and spurious (1995) (9)
Just Folklore: Analysis, Interpretation, Critique (2012) (9)
Intercultural communication as applied ethnology and folklore / The compromises of applying theories in the making: Response to Klaus Roth's orally delivered paper (1999) (8)
"Hey, You've Got No Character": Chizbat Humor and the Boundaries of Israeli Identity (1973) (8)
Folk or Lore? The Stake in Dichotomies (2006) (8)
Folklore and Advocacy (2005) (7)
Back to the Future: Questions for Theory in the Twenty-First Century (Francis Lee Utley Lecture, sponsored by the American Folklore Society Fellows, October 2017) (2019) (7)
Memetics and Folkloristics: The Theory (2014) (6)
Oppositions, overlaps, and ontologies: The general theory of verbal humor revisited (2019) (6)
On the Future of American Folklore Studies: A Response (1991) (6)
The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning (2003) (5)
Still further thoughts on Logical Mechanisms: A response to Christian F. Hempelmann and Salvatore Attardo (2011) (5)
Jokes on the Internet: Listing toward Lists (2012) (4)
Folk Groups And Folklore Genres Reader: A Reader (1989) (3)
Thinking through Tradition (2013) (3)
On the Meanings of Mother Goose (1987) (3)
The interests of identity (1994) (3)
The consolations of humor (2017) (3)
Anthropology Demands More (1996) (3)
The Devolutionary Premise: A Definitional Delusion? (1975) (2)
To Explain Tradition (2021) (2)
Transmission and Degeneration (1978) (2)
Humor and the Individual (1984) (2)
On the tradition and mathematics of counting-out (1997) (2)
Humble Theory: Folklore's Grasp on Social Life (2017) (2)
On Student Journals (1988) (2)
Review of: Folksongs and Their Makers, by Henry Glassie, Edward D. Ives, and John F. Szwed (1972) (1)
Jokes and Their Relation to Sigmund Freud (1984) (1)
Neal R. Norrick, Conversational joking: Humor in everyday talk . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. Pp, x, 175. Hb $29.95. (1994) (1)
Folklore Archives of the World@@@Perspectives on Folklore and Education (1970) (1)
Traditional Functionalism: Once More with Feeling (1977) (1)
Formalizing humor: A response to Christian Hempelmann and Julia Taylor Rayz (2019) (1)
Book Review (2014) (0)
The Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes (2010) (0)
THE CONTOURS OF THE BOOK (2020) (0)
Mathematics of Counting-ou t (2016) (0)
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman (2020) (0)
To Skin an Elephant On the Presumption of Aggression in Humor (2017) (0)
Speech Play and Verbal Art (review) (2004) (0)
The Futures of Scholarship and Public Practice in Folklore/Concluding Remarks (2006) (0)
Questions about Questions: A Response to Robert Baron, Dorothy Noyes, and John D. Dorst (2019) (0)
Book Review (2014) (0)
Studies in Jewish Law, Custom and Folklore@@@Beauty in Holiness: Studies in Jewish Ceremonial Art and Customs (1972) (0)
The J. Golden Kimball Stories. by Eric A. Eliason (2008) (0)
Review of 'Legends of the Hasidim' (Mintz) (1969) (0)
God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor (2015) (0)
The Aristocrats (review) (2007) (0)
The First Book of Jewish Jokes (2018) (0)
Redundancy in Repertoire (2017) (0)
Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke (review) (2009) (0)
There Is a Method to this Madness (1968) (0)
Speech Play and Verbal Art (2004) (0)
Linguistics: Folklore in the Modern World. Richard M. Dorson (1980) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1992) (0)
Folkore Forum Mission Statement (2005) (0)
Cracking Up: American Humor in a Time of Conflict (review) (2010) (0)
Review of: Every Man His Way: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, ed. by Alan Dundes (1970) (0)
Folkgames and Game Theory (1968) (0)
L. A. in Installments: Forest Lawn (1982) (0)
Response by Elliott Oring: Folklore and Advocacy (2004) (0)

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California State University, Los Angeles