Gossip and the Politics of Reputation in Classical Athens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3939990 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Virginia Hunter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 299 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phoenix (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1088805 |
| OpenAlex | W2314911461 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
CLASSICISTS HAVE DEVOTED but scant attention to the phenomenon of gossip.1 This is a pity, for gossip has much to tell about the society that produced it. Or this is the view of anthropologists of small communities who have made gossip a serious study. There is one proposition especially that dominates their discussions: gossip is not a gratuitous of expression but one with its own rules, both socially and culturally determined (Gluckman 308-314; du Boulay 205). As a cultural form (Spacks 15), gossip is expressive of the norms, values, and ideology of a given community and of
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,65 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |