Diversion and subversion occur in the playful humor in which trans-migrant farm workers engage to alleviate the gruffness and roughness of farm labor and to re-assert the human potential for creativity, with words, if not in action and behavior. This essay considers nuances of the humor response in formal interviews as markers of significant points of transition. Narrators use humor to reflect on alterations in behavioral experience that directly affect the personal identity they have come to accept and to believe is a reasonable representation of who they are.
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- Modification of Social Identity in Experience-Toughened Trans-Migrant Agricultural Workers
- Bletzer, Keith (Author)
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Contributor)
- Digital object identifier: 10.2174/1874912701003010114
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value1874-9127
- The final version of this article, as published in The Open Anthropology Journal, can be viewed online at: https://benthamopen.com/ABSTRACT/TOANTHJ-3-114, opens in a new window
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Bletzer, K. V. (2010). Modification of Social Identity in Experience-Toughened Trans-Migrant Agricultural Workers. The Open Anthropology Journal, 3(1), 114-123. doi:10.2174/1874912701003010114