...this time enthnographers have returned from the field with footage of a truly savage native ritual: teachers at an elementary school in the Midwest dishing about their principal behind her back.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Social functions of gossip
John Tierney does a nice piece on one sort of contemporary ethnography, in this case dealing with gossip as reputational warfare.
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