Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics

by Niko Besnier

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824833570
• ISBN13: 9780824833572
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.9"