Irony in action. Anthropology, practice and the moral imagination

Introduction: The anthropology of irony (James W. Fernandez and Mary Taylor Huber); Irony and power: Toward a politics of mockery in Greece (Michael Herzfeld); The irony of complicity and the complicity of irony in development discourse (James W. Fernandez); The predicament of irony and the panoid style in Fin-de-siècle rationality (George E. Marcus); The last discussant (James Clifford); and others...