Publications

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

Keywords

oratory | political language | power | public speech

Language as a subject

Languages, Melanesian

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.

Reviewed by

Williams, Jeffrey P. 1994. Review of $Just talk: Gossip, meetings, and power in a Papua New Guinea village.