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grog and gossip in Bhatgaon: style and substance in Fiji Indian conversation
Author(s) -
BRENNEIS DONALD
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1984.11.3.02a00050
Subject(s) - gossip , conversation , focus (optics) , style (visual arts) , sociology , psychology , social psychology , literature , communication , art , physics , optics
Anthropological studies of gossip have been preoccupied with its content; as important as the question of what gossip is about may be, such a focus has prevented a close examination of gossip itself as both text and activity. This paper is concerned with talanoa, a gossip genre among Hindi‐speaking Fiji Indians. It demonstrates the close relationships among gossip topic, performance style, and social process in a rural community.