The constrained use of irony in U.S. Congressional hearings on immigration / Phyllis Pease Chock -- Irony and power: toward a politics of mockery in Greece / Michael Herzfeld -- The irony of complicity and the complicity of irony in development discourse / James W. Fernandez -- What makes the anthropologist laugh?: The abelam, irony, and me / Diane Losche -- Kenneth Burke's "True irony": one model for ethnography, still / James A. Boon -- An apollonian response / Arnold Krupat -- Wine in the writing, truth in the rhetoric: three levels of irony in a Chinese essay genre / Mary Scoggin -- "Paddy's pig": irony and self-irony in Irish culture / Lawrence J. Taylor -- Irony and paradox in the "contact zone": missionary discourse in Northern Papua New Guinea / Mary Taylor Huber -- The predicament of irony and the paranoid style in fin-de-siècle rationality / George E. Marcus -- Ironic irony / Paul Friedrich -- The last discussant / James Clifford.