ABSTRACT
joking relationships. A joking relationship involves a particular combination of friendliness and antagonism between individuals or groups in certain social situations. In these situations one individual or group is allowed to mock or ridicule the other without offence being taken. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown in Structure and Function in Primitive Society, 1952, distinguished between symmetrical joking relationships, where each party has the right to tease, and asymmetrical relationships where only one party is so privileged.
