Search for: [Abstract = %22This article presents a description and analysis of some typical patterns of joking interactions among the Arabela people of Peruvian Amazonia in the context of a particular attitude towards the Other typical to the Arabela cosmology. The paper deals with a particular kind of %E2%80%9Cphatic%E2%80%9D joking that occurs when people change their mutual relations in the everyday practice %5C(join or leave a group or a collective activity%2C establish visual contact%2C etc.%5C). It is shown that these interactions are based on four participant roles. The active side of the interaction is composed of the positions of prompter and speaker%2C one who invents a jibe and one who pronounces it. The passive side is split into a first and a second butt of joke. The article claims that in these patterns an expression of a more general pattern of relations towards the Other can be seen%2C that combines two contrastive relations of aggressive opposition and mutual complicity%22]

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