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Hrvatski vicevi o Bosancima

Jokes about stupidity are the most common, most widespread and most long-lasting kind of jokes apart from sexual jokes (Davies 1998). They delineate the otherwise ambiguous boundaries of joke-tellers’ society and pin the stupidity or some other undesirable human quality on a particular ethnic group (Davies 1990). The geographical, social, cultural, religious and linguistic characteristics of the target groups of such jokes can be clearly established (cf. Davies 1982 ; 1990 ; 1998). They are ambiguous, not entirely "strange" nor entirely "ours". It was indicated by H. Bergson and S. Freud 100 years ago, and elaborated in the works of Ch. Davies. In the paper it is shown that Bosnians and especially Bosniaks, i.e. Muslims from Bosnia and Herzegovina, are the ideal candidate for Croatian jokes about stupidity – they occupy the periphery of the Croatian ethnic territory, speak the same language with some distinctive traits, their religion is different, often they migrate to Croatian cities and have manual or blue-collar jobs.

vic ; dosjetka ; kazivač ; meta ; predmet sprdnje ; glupost ; Hrvati ; Bosanci ; Bošnjaci ; muslimani

Pod naslovom "Vicevi o Bosancima" govoreno na "Svečanome kolokviju u čast 70. rođendana profesora Ive Pranjkovića", Zagreb, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 29.9.2017.