About the author
Elliott Oring is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles and a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has written extensively on folklore, humor, and cultural symbolism. He is on the editorial board of Humor and has served as the president of the International Society for Humor Studies. His most recent books are Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor; The First Book of Jewish Jokes: The Collection of L. M. Büschenthal; and Just Folklore: Analysis, Interpretation, Critique. He can be contacted at eoring@calstatela.edu.
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