Varieties of Gossip in a Spanish Rural Community

Abstract

Since publication of Gluckman's groundbreaking paper in I963, anthropologists interpreting gossip have split into two camps. The first camp, following Gluckman, is functionalist and approaches the subject from the perspective of methodological holism. It views gossip as a spontaneous collective sanction, as public opinion enforcing conformity to community norms. For Gluckman and his followers, gossip is a group-binding, boundary-maintaining mechanism (Gluck

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