Joking Relationships
Relationships that permit and require playful interaction.
Certain kin are in joking relationships where teasing, pranks, and playful insults are expected. These relationships provide social release and strengthen bonds through humor, balancing the more formal relationships.
With some relatives, you must joke. It keeps the spirit light.
Joking relationships provide structured social release valves.
Oral Tradition
Written about in
- What Aboriginal tradition says about conflict with people close to you
With certain relatives, teasing and playful insult are not merely permitted but expected. The pressure valve is built into the kin system rather than left to find its own way out.