ANTH 425 Power and Change
15 September 2011
A structural functionalist view: Read Gluckman, Max (1963) "Papers in Honor of Melville J. Herskovits: Gossip and Scandal." Current Anthropology, 4(3): 307-316. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2739613
- how does structural-functionalism work?
- how does Gluckman interpret gossip and scandal?
- what kinds of societies does his interpretation pertain to?
- what are the insights from this kind of analysis?
- what are the shortcomings?
- e.g. are there more important elements about the Makah case than the role of gossip and scandal in uniting the group?