Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Orthography and Transcription Conventions -- Gossip, Hegemony, Agency -- The World from a Cooking Hut -- Hierarchy and Egalitarianism -- Morality and the Structure of Gossip -- The Twenty-Dollar Piglets -- The Two Widows -- Sorcery and Ambition -- Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.