Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics 9780824862695

Although gossip is disapproved of across the world’s societies, it is a prominent feature of sociality, whose role in th

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Orthography and Transcription Conventions
1. Gossip, Hegemony, Agency
2. The World from a Cooking Hut
3 .Hierarchy and Egalitarianism
4. Morality and the Structure of Gossip
5. The Twenty-Dollar Piglets
6 .The Two Widows
7. Sorcery and Ambition
8. Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics
Notes
References
Index

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