Chapter 6 The Use of Gossip: Setting Cooperative Boundaries

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations and Tables vi
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 Problems with Cooperatives 9
7. Chapter 2 The Anthropology of Co-ops, the Mafia and the Sicilian Lens 35
8. Chapter 3 Cooperatives and the Historical Anti-mafia Movement 61
9. Chapter 4 Worldviews of Labour: Legality and Food Ideologies 84
10. Chapter 5 The Limits of ‘Bad Kinship’ Sicilian Anti-mafia Families 102
11. Chapter 6 The Use of Gossip: Setting Cooperative Boundaries 122
12. Chapter 7 ‘Wage Is Male – But Land Is a Woman’ 141
13. Chapter 8 Community Trouble Cooperative Conundrum 159
14. Chapter 9 Divided by Land: Mafia and Anti-mafia Proximity 173
15. Conclusion: The Private Life of Political Cooperativism 190
16. Bibliography 199
17. Index 225