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Tittle tattle Talia : a story about gossiping
\"Tittle-tattle Talia is a story about a young girl who can not resist a juicy story. She is always talking about other people and she loves the attention she gets from those who listen to her tales. Despite warnings to stop, she doesn't see why a bit of fun is such a problem, but wait...where have all her friends gone?\"
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Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip
Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip combines two classic topics in social anthropology in a new synthesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumours and gossip. It shows how rumour and gossip are invariably important as catalysts for accusations of witchcraft and sorcery, and demonstrates the role of rumour and gossip in the genesis of social and political violence, as in the case of both peasant rebellions and witch-hunts. Examples supporting the argument are drawn from Africa, Europe, India, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. They include discussions of witchcraft trials in Essex, England in the seventeenth century, witch-hunts and vampire narratives in colonial and contemporary Africa, millenarian movements in New Guinea, the Indian Mutiny in nineteenth-century Uttar Pradesh, and rumours of construction sacrifice in Indonesia.
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You didn't hear this from me : (mostly) true notes on gossip
\"Can you keep a secret? As the pandemic forced us to socialize at a distance, Kelsey McKinney was mourning the juicy updates, jaw-dropping stories, and idle chatter that she'd typically collect over drinks with friends. She realized she wasn't the only one missing these little morsels and her hunger for this aspect of normalcy took on a life of its own and the blockbuster Normal Gossip podcast was born. With listenership in the millions and gossip quickly becoming her day job, Kelsey found herself with the urge to think more critically about gossip as a form, to better understand the role that it plays in our culture. In YOU DIDN'T HEAR THIS FROM ME, McKinney explores the murkiness of everyday storytelling. Why is gossip considered a sin and how can we better recognize when gossip is being weaponized against the oppressed? Why do we think we're entitled to every detail of a celebrity's personal life because they are a public figure? And how do we even define \"gossip,\" anyway? She dishes on the art of eavesdropping and dives deep into how pop culture has changed the way that we look at hearsay. But as much as the book aims to treat gossip as a subject worthy of rigor, it also hopes to capture the heart of gossiping: how enchanting and fun it can be to lean over and whisper something a little salacious into your friend's ear. With wit and honesty, McKinney unmasks what we're actually searching for when we demand to know the truth - and how much the truth really matters in the first place\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sunday morning. Opinion : Nancy Giles on gossip
This segment of Sunday Morning is a commentary on everyone's fascination with other people's business --- gossip.
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Gossip, Markets, and Gender
\"All traders are thieves, especially women traders,\" people often assured social anthropologist Tuulikki Pietilä during her field work in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, in the mid-1990s. Equally common were stories about businessmen who had \"bought a spirit\" for their enrichment. Pietilä places these and similar comments in the context of the liberalization of the Tanzanian economy that began in the 1980s, when many men and women found themselves newly enmeshed in the burgeoning market economy. Even as emerging private markets strengthened the position of enterprising people, economic resources did not automatically lead to heightened social position. Instead, social recognition remained tied to a complex cultural negotiation through stories and gossip in markets, bars, and neighborhoods. With its rich ethnographic detail,
Gossip, Markets, and Gender shows how gossip and the responses to it form an ongoing dialogue through which the moral reputations of trading women and businessmen, and cultural ideas about moral value and gender, are constructed and rethought. By combining a sociolinguistic study of talk, storytelling, and conversation with analysis of gender, the political economy of trading, and the moral economy of personhood, Pietilä reveals a new perspective on the globalization of the market economy and its meaning and impact on the local level.
Winner, Aidoo-Snyder Prize, African Studies Association Women’s Caucus
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Between You and Me
In the decades preceding the Stonewall riots—in the wake of the 1948 publication of Alfred Kinsey’s controversial report on male sexuality and in the midst of a cold war culture of suspicion and paranoia—discussions of homosexuality within the New York art world necessarily circulated via gossip and rumor. Between You and Me explores this informal, everyday talk and how it shaped artists’ lives, their work, and its reception. Revealing the “trivial” and “unserious” aspects of the postwar art scene as key to understanding queer subjectivity, Gavin Butt argues for a richer, more expansive concept of historical evidence, one that supplements the verifiable facts of traditional historical narrative with the gossipy fictions of sexual curiosity.Focusing on the period from 1948 to 1963, Butt draws on the accusations and denials of homosexuality that appeared in the popular press, on early homophile publications such as One and the Mattachine Review, and on biographies, autobiographies, and interviews. In a stunning exposition of Larry Rivers’s work, he shows how Rivers incorporated gossip into his paintings, just as his friend and lover Frank O’Hara worked it into his poetry. He describes how the stories about Andy Warhol being too “swish” to be taken seriously as an artist changed following his breakthrough success, reconstructing him as an asexual dandy. Butt also speculates on the meanings surrounding a MoMA curator’s refusal in 1958 to buy Jasper Johns’s Target with Plaster Casts on the grounds that it was too scandalous for the museum to acquire. Between You and Me sheds new light on a pivotal moment in American cultural production as it signals new directions for art history.
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Covert operations: the medieval uses of secrecy
Covert Operations brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Isolating five broad areas-confession, women's gossip, medieval science and medicine, marriage and the law, and sodomitic discourse-Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts in which they are played out.
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Knowledge Goes Pop
A voice on late night radio tells you that a fast food joint injects its food with drugs that make men impotent. A colleague asks if you think the FBI was in on 9/11. An alien abductee on the Internet claims extra-terrestrials have planted a microchip in her left buttock. 'Julia Roberts in Porn Scandal' shouts the front page of a gossip mag. A spiritual healer claims he can cure chronic fatigue syndrome with the energizing power of crystals . . . What do you believe? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the popular knowledges that saturate our everyday experience. We make this information and then it shapes the way we see the world. How valid is it when compared to official knowledge and why does such (mis)information cause so much institutional anxiety? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the range of knowledge, from conspiracy theory to plain gossip, and its role and impact in our culture.
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Between you and me : queer disclosures in the New York art world, 1948-1963
In the decades preceding the Stonewall riots—in the wake of the 1948 publication of Alfred Kinsey's controversial report on male sexuality and in the midst of a cold war culture of suspicion and paranoia—discussions of homosexuality within the New York art world necessarily circulated via gossip and rumor. Between You and Me explores this informal, everyday talk and how it shaped artists' lives, their work, and its reception. Revealing the \"trivial\" and \"unserious\" aspects of the postwar art scene as key to understanding queer subjectivity, Gavin Butt argues for a richer, more expansive concept of historical evidence, one that supplements the verifiable facts of traditional historical narrative with the gossipy fictions of sexual curiosity.
Focusing on the period from 1948 to 1963, Butt draws on the accusations and denials of homosexuality that appeared in the popular press, on early homophile publications such as One and the Mattachine Review, and on biographies, autobiographies, and interviews. In a stunning exposition of Larry Rivers's work, he shows how Rivers incorporated gossip into his paintings, just as his friend and lover Frank O'Hara worked it into his poetry. He describes how the stories about Andy Warhol being too \"swish\" to be taken seriously as an artist changed following his breakthrough success, reconstructing him as an asexual dandy. Butt also speculates on the meanings surrounding a MoMA curator's refusal in 1958 to buy Jasper Johns's Target with Plaster Casts on the grounds that it was too scandalous for the museum to acquire. Between You and Me sheds new light on a pivotal moment in American cultural production as it signals new directions for art history.
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3.1. Les potins d'Alésia
1805 pièces gauloises ont été recueillies à Alise-Sainte-Reine et dans les environs. Elles se répartissent en trois grands lots : le musée d'Alise, le musée des Antiquités nationales à Saint-Germain-en-Laye et le numéraire provenant des fouilles de J. Bénard. Cette récolte se décompose ainsi : 3 monnaies d'or ou d'électrum, 376 pièces d'argent, 265 bronzes frappés, 190 bronzes ou potins (leur état ne permet pas de trancher) et 971 potins. Le premier lot, celui du musée d'Alise, comporte 802 potins, le deuxième (musée des Antiquités nationales) 62, le troisième (fouilles Bénard) 107. Le numéraire lingon est largement dominant au musée d'Alise et dans les fouilles Bénard, alors que les Sénons sont les plus représentés au musée des Antiquités nationales. Le nombre élevé des potins attribués aux Séquanes pose un problème intéressant. Les pièces conservées au musée d'Alise proviennent presque toutes de la ville gallo-romaine, nous ne possédons pas de renseignements stratigraphiques pour les espèces qui constituent la collection du musée des Antiquités nationales, mais leur perte est normalement datable de 52 avant J.-C. Quelques monnaies des fouilles Bénard ont été recueillies dans un horizon stratigraphique daté entre 70 et 40, les autres sont issues d'un contexte gallo-romain. 1805 keltische Münzen sind in Alise-Sainte-Reine und Umgebung gefunden worden. Sie verteilen sich auf drei groβe Bestände: Museum Alise, musée des Antiquités nationales in St. Germain-en-Laye und die Stücke aus den Grabungen J. Bénard. Es handelt sich um 3 Münzen aus Gold oder Elektrum, 376 aus Silber, 265 Bronzeprägungen, 190 Münzen aus Bronze oder Potin (ihre Erhaltung erlaubt keine klare Zuweisung) und 971 Potinmünzen. Die Sammlung in Alise enthält 802 Potinmünzen, das musée des Antiquités nationales 62 und aus den Grabungen Bénard stammen 107 Potinmünzen. Münzen, die den Lingonen zugewiesen werden, dominieren im Museum von Alise sowie den Grabungen Bénard, dagegen die sog. Senonen-Münzen im musée des Antiquités nationales. Die hohe Zahl von Sequaner-Münzen verdient Interesse. Die Stücke im Museum von Alise stammen fast alle aus dem Bereich der gallorömischen Siedlung, für jene des musée des Antiquités nationales besitzen wir keine stratigraphischen Angaben, doch dürften sie allgemein im Jahr 52 v. Chr. in den Boden gelangt sein. Einige Münzen der Grabungen Bénard stammen aus einem zwischen 70 und 40 v. Chr. datierbaren Horizont, die übrigen aus einem gallo-römischen Kontext.
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