Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics

Name: Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics
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ISBN: 9780824833572

ISBN-10: 0824833570

ISBN-13: 9780824833572

Edition: 2009

Authors: Niko Besnier

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Although gossip is disapproved of across the world¿s societies, it is a prominent feature of sociality, whose role in the construction of society and culture cannot be overestimated. In particular, gossip is central to the enactment of politics: through it people transform difference into inequality and enact or challenge power structures. Based on the author¿s intimate ethnographic knowledge of Nukulaelae Atoll, Tuvalu, this work uses an analysis of gossip as political action to develop a holistic understanding of a number of disparate themes, including conflict, power, agency, morality, emotion, locality, belief, and gender. It brings together two methodological traditions¿the microscopic…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 7/8/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Orthography and Transcription Conventions



Gossip, Hegemony, Agency



The World from a Cooking Hut



Hierarchy and Egalitarianism



Morality and the Structure of Gossip



The Twenty-Dollar Piglets



The Two Widows



Sorcery and Ambition



Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics


Notes


References


Index