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The paper presents a model of parody, seen as distorted imitation of some object or person aimed at eliciting laughter. A qualitative analysis is presented of the parody of a politician by a comedian. The analysis is carried out through an annotation scheme that describes each sentence, gesture, gaze, facial expression of the parody, and finds out the allusion it bears and the humorous aspects it...
This essay asks what the study of socialism and its legacies still offers anthropology of the contemporary world and argues that studying late‐socialist aesthetics and practices can provide unexpected insight into late‐liberal political culture, communication, and subjectivity. In the first half of the essay, we concentrate on a particular mode of parody (known in Russia as stiob) that imitated and...
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