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The laughter of the 1962 Tanganyika ‘laughter epidemic’

The present article discusses the role of laughter in the much cited ‘laughter epidemic’ that occurred in Tanganyika in 1962...

Keywords: Africa, laughter, laughter epidemic, mass hysteria, mass psychogenic illness, Tanganyika

02/2007 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter