Global South Ethnographies: Minding the Senses. Chapter: Humor takes the stage: A performance of couples' humor.

Abstract or Summary

Wendy Talbot turned to performance theory to bring her research findings to life, finding a way to bring un-humorous humor theory to an audience. She puts a personified Humor on the stage as five couples engage in a reflexive process of audiencing their own conversations. Wendy call this process reflexive audiencing practice. Employing performance and presenting her chapter as a script we see some of the effects for couples who reflexively audience their own lives, and in particular the contribution(s) of Humor to this evolving process.