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Publication details [#28707]

Brison, Karen J. 1992. Just talk: Gossip, meetings, and power in a Papua New Guinea village. University of California Press. 306 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

This paper deals with the role of gossip and public speeches in the constitution and control of power in egalitarian Melanesian Sepik River societies.

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