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Just Talk: Gossip, Meetings, and Power in a Papua New Guinea Village (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, No. 11)
Just Talk Gossip Meetings and Power in a Papua New Guinea Village - Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, No. 11
Author: Karen J. Brison
Just Talk examines the often overlooked role of gossip and rumor in creating power in small Melanesian communities. The Kwanga of the East Sepik Province of Papua, New Guinea think that malicious gossip is almost as dangerous as sorcery. They spend hours in community meetings, looking into rumors about sorcery, adultery, and other sources of...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520077003
ISBN-10: 0520077008
Publication Date: 9/18/1992
Pages: 316
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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