… Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1978-1984), 16 vols, vol. VIII, p. 3113. There is an issue about whether ‘gossip’ is the right word. It is not much in evidence in the period as an abstract noun and it was … groups. See Max Gluckman, p. 315; Diego Gambetta, ‘Godfather’s gossip’, Archives Européennes de Sociologie (vol. 35, issue 2, 1994), p. 199-223; and Sally Engel Merry, p. 271-302. Gossip may also have instrumental dimensions – knowing …