Eavesdropping (39 page)

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Authors: John L. Locke

Silber, John 31–2

Silk, Joan 55, 58

Simmel, Georg 26

Simonetti, Attilia
181

“skimmingtons” 143–7

sleeping spaces 98–100

smell, sense of 21

Smith, Albert 155, 158

Smith, Janna Malamud 89

sniffing 21

Soap Opera and Women’s Talk
(Brown) 12

soap operas 199–200

social behavior, making inferences from observation of 24

social brain hypothesis” 59

social comparison 106

social control, blackmail 113–16

social distance, optimum 76–7

social networking websites 191

solitude 22

Sontag, Susan 215

sparrows, courtship tunes 47

Spender, Humphrey 218

spies, children as 26

Spionnetje (“little spy”)
27

“spontaneous compound eavesdropping” 33

Springer, Jerry 138

spy holes
28

stalking 209–10

stealth in animals 48–9, 51

Steele, Valerie 161

Stephen, Leslie 214

Stevenson, Robert Louis 99

Stone, Lawrence 132, 179

Strand, Paul 216–17,
217

strangers

fear of 95

and population growth 132

street photographers 216–20,
219

Subway Passengers
(Evans)
219

superstitions about eyes 112

surveillance

perceived 112

and stalking 209–10

Swinton, Tilda 32–3

synchronicity in humans 206

Tanner, Tony 195–6

telescopes, purchases in New York 16

temptation to eavesdrop 37

Teopiscanecos, Mexico 26

territoriality and gender 134

territory, mental 208–9, 213

Testanière, Raymonde 96, 121–2

theft

analogy with eavesdropping 127–8

in birds 50–1

Thompson, E. P. 115, 146

Tobar, Daniela 33

Le Toucher
(Bosse)
173

Town & Country Magazine
177–8

translations of “eavesdropping” 17

Trapnell, William 33–4

Traviés, Edouard 155

Trodd, Anthea 184

Trojan horse eavesdropping
35
, 35–6

trust

and intimacy 102–3

and privacy in open plan communities 74

Tullett, Elizabeth 119–21

Twitter 191

Umwelt
40–1

Underhill, Mr. & Mrs. 9–13

Veblen, Thorsten 171

Vernon, John 195

Vidal, Pierre
170

vigilance in primates 56–7

virtual eavesdropping 193

visibility

and morality 110

and surveillance 112–13

vocal empowerment 12

Von Uexküll, Jacob 40–1

voyeurism 11

as largely male activity 153

walls

cracked 107–8

interior 102–3

invention 77, 78–80

and privacy 89, 97

and relief from surveillance 88

thin 29

Walsh, Marilyn 127

Warren, Richard 208–9

Washing Tub, The
(Vidal)
170

Waugh, Dorothy 142

Weitman, Sasha 89

whispering 21

animal equivalent 48–9

Whitescale, Joan 136

whore-scolding 136–7

widows

observed behavior 116–17

remarriage 144

wild humans 63

Williams, Jesse Lee 161

Wilson, Harriette 114

Wilson, Peter 82, 86–7, 93

women, effect of scolding and gossip 135–40

Yagua people 74

Yale Literary Magazine
200–1

Yve, Agnes 136

Zinacanteco people 84–5

Zola, Émile 160–1

“zone of immunity” 96

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