Seriously Funny: Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance

Readers should be aware that the emphasis here is on the "serious" rather than the "funny" (perhaps better reflected in the Spanish title, Humor en serio), and that, though the great many jokes included are often quite funny, Schmidt's is a scholarly work drawing on psychological research on humor-defined, citing another scholar, as "the transference of the moral for the scientific" (p.25)-and historical and political science analyses of Mexican politics. Beyond the few specializing in political humor, this volume would provide valuable insight for those who research culture, public opinion, or state-society relations in any country, and is absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in Mexican politics, if only to be able to repeat the jokes.