Gypsies In Central Asia And The Caucasus

Author : Elena Marushiakova,Vesselin Popov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319410579

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Gypsies in Central Asia and the Caucasus by Elena Marushiakova,Vesselin Popov Pdf

This book explores diverse communities living in Central Asia and the Caucasus, who are generally gathered under the umbrella term of ‘Gypsies’, their multidimensional identities, self-appellations and labels given to them by surrounding populations, researcher and policy-makers. The book presents various Gypsy and Gypsy-like communities and provides a comprehensive review of their history, demography, ways of life, past and present occupations, and contemporary migration in post-Soviet space. The authors situate these communities in historical settings and also in the wider context of contemporary evolving global and areal developments. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, sociology, social anthropology, nationalities studies, global and Central Asia and Caucasus areal studies, and Gypsy/Romani studies, and also for policy-makers and civic organizations.

Author : Lola Gulyamova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031078736

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The Geography of Uzbekistan by Lola Gulyamova Pdf

This book describes the geography of Uzbekistan and its unique history and culture. It focuses on the development of Uzbekistan as a result of its location on the crossroads of the Silk Road. The influence of global and regional environmental challenges on the current landscape and similar issues are discussed and analyzed from a historical perspective. Contemporary tensions and reforms in social, economical and cultural life are described with the aim to draw a picture of modern paths to transformation and development. The Geography of Uzbekistan includes also information on geology, nature and natural resources, in particular water. The book discusses the social and environmental impacts of the Aral Sea disaster and shows new paths of transformation and development for this Central Asian country.

Author : Kristina Richardson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780755635795

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Roma in the Medieval Islamic World by Kristina Richardson Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history In Middle Eastern cities as early as the mid-8th century, the Sons of Sasan begged, trained animals, sold medicinal plants and potions, and told fortunes. They captivated the imagination of Arab writers and playwrights, who immortalized their strange ways in poems, plays, and the Thousand and One Nights. Using a wide range of sources, Richardson investigates the lived experiences of these Sons of Sasan, who changed their name to Ghuraba' (Strangers) by the late 1200s. This name became the Arabic word for the Roma and Roma-affiliated groups also known under the pejorative term 'Gypsies'. This book uses mostly Ghuraba'-authored works to understand their tribal organization and professional niches as well as providing a glossary of their language Sin. It also examines the urban homes, neighborhoods, and cemeteries that they constructed. Within these isolated communities they developed and nurtured a deep literary culture and astrological tradition, broadening our appreciation of the cultural contributions of medieval minority communities. Remarkably, the Ghuraba' began blockprinting textual amulets by the 10th century, centuries before printing on paper arrived in central Europe. When Roma tribes migrated from Ottoman territories into Bavaria and Bohemia in the 1410s, they may have carried this printing technology into the Holy Roman Empire.

Author : Susanne Fehlings
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811952050

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Traders, Informal Trade and Markets between the Caucasus and China by Susanne Fehlings Pdf

The book is about the economic practices of traders and businesspeople from the Caucasus and China who work in local bazaars in Tbilisi and Beijing. It describes their activities, their motivations, their socio-cultural backgrounds, their work environments, and their interactions with one another. Contributing to a broader debate on the nature and role of informal economic practices in the post-Soviet periphery and processes of “globalization from below”, the book aims at providing a thick description of the embeddedness of bazaar traders’ economic behaviors and strategies in local and global political, economic, and cultural contexts, markets and supply chains.

Author : Laurel Victoria Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350249493

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Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan by Laurel Victoria Gray Pdf

The first comprehensive work in English on the three major regional styles of Uzbek women's dance – Ferghana, Khiva and Bukhara – and their broader Silk Road cultural connections, from folklore roots to contemporary stage dance. The book surveys the remarkable development from the earliest manifestations in ancient civilizations to a sequestered existence under Islam; from patronage under Soviet power to a place of pride for Uzbek nationhood. It considers the role that immigration had to play on the development of the dances; how women boldly challenged societal gender roles to perform in public; how both material culture and the natural world manifest in the dance; and it illuminates the innovations of pioneering choreographers who drew from Central Asian folk traditions, gestures and aesthetics – not Russian ballet – to first shape modern Uzbek stage dance. Written by the first American dancer invited to study in Uzbekistan, this book offers insight into the once-hidden world of Uzbek women's dance.

Author : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Discrimination
ISBN : PSU:000058167960

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The Romani minority in Russia by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Pdf

Author : Tomasz Kamusella
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633864180

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Words in Space and Time by Tomasz Kamusella Pdf

With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe’s languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on languages, dialects, alphabets, religions, mass violence, or migrations over an extended period of time. The story first focuses on Central Europe’s dialect continua, the emergence of states, and the spread of writing technology from the tenth century onward. Most maps concentrate on the last two centuries. The main storyline opens with the emergence of the Western European concept of the nation, in accord with which the ethnolinguistic nation-states of Italy and Germany were founded. In the Central European view, a “proper” nation is none other than the speech community of a single language. The Atlas aspires to help users make the intellectual leap of perceiving languages as products of human history and part of culture. Like states, nations, universities, towns, associations, art, beauty, religions, injustice, or atheism—languages are artefacts invented and shaped by individuals and their groups.

Author : Brigid O'Keeffe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442665873

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New Soviet Gypsies by Brigid O'Keeffe Pdf

As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism, “Gypsies” threatened the Bolsheviks’ ideal of New Soviet Men and Women. The early Soviet state feared that its Romani population suffered from an extraordinary and potentially insurmountable cultural “backwardness,” and sought to sovietize Roma through a range of nation-building projects. Yet as Brigid O’Keeffe shows in this book, Roma actively engaged with Bolshevik nationality policies, thereby assimilating Soviet culture, social customs, and economic relations. Roma proved the primary agents in the refashioning of so-called “backwards Gypsies” into conscious Soviet citizens. New Soviet Gypsies provides a unique history of Roma, an overwhelmingly understudied and misunderstood diasporic people, by focusing on their social and political lives in the early Soviet Union. O’Keeffe illustrates how Roma mobilized and performed “Gypsiness” as a means of advancing themselves socially, culturally, and economically as Soviet citizens. Exploring the intersection between nationality, performance, and self-fashioning, O’Keeffe shows that Roma not only defy easy typecasting, but also deserve study as agents of history.

Author : Sergey Gabbasov
Publisher : Litres
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9785042298554

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Hidden Hunter-Gatherers of Indian Ocean. With appendix by Sergey Gabbasov Pdf

In this book the author analyzes different groups of hunters and gatherers which live around the coast of Indian Ocean – from the hill jungles of North Thailand to the sandy shores of South Madagascar, from the foothills of Himalaya to the savannahs of central India and deep forests of Sri Lanka.The research is based on the big fieldwork expedition experience and huge bibliography references.

Author : Dan Allen,Margaret Greenfields,David Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527526891

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Transnational Resilience and Change by Dan Allen,Margaret Greenfields,David Smith Pdf

This edited collection draws together contributions from various social scientific fields and explores the mechanisms and strategies that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities employ to preserve identities and cultural practices in different situational and national contexts. The book has a global focus with case studies from different European nations, as well as from Australia, North and South America. While several chapters acknowledge the power of cultural maintenance in the preservation of identity, others take a critical stance towards those aspects of inwardly focused and self-regulated examples of cultural isolation and highlight the implications that cultural marginality can have for members of these groups. The book is therefore essential reading for students in professional fields such as social work, education and community development. It is also relevant to academics with interests in anthropology, ethnography, migration studies, politics, public administration, sociology and social policy. Many of the book’s themes have a cross-disciplinary and transnational relevance and will be of interest to a range of international audiences.

Author : Ioana Szeman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785337314

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Staging Citizenship by Ioana Szeman Pdf

Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union’s most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on “performance” broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter’s settlement in Transylvania as they navigate precarious circumstances in a postsocialist state. Through accounts of music and dance performances, media representations, activism, and interactions with both non-governmental organizations and state agencies, author Ioana Szeman grounds broad themes of political economy, citizenship, resistance, and neoliberalism in her subjects’ remarkably varied lives and experiences.

Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191080517

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Gypsies by David Cressy Pdf

Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? Can they even be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all? Gypsies have frequently been vilified, and not much less frequently romanticized, by the settled population over the centuries. Social historian David Cressy now attempts to disentangle the myth from the reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of English history. In this, the first comprehensive historical study of the doings and dealings of Gypsies in England, he draws on original archival research, and a wide range of reading, to trace the many moments when Gypsy lives became entangled with those of villagers and townsfolk, religious and secular authorities, and social and moral reformers. Crucially, it is a story not just of the Gypsy community and its peculiarities, but also of England's treatment of that community, from draconian Elizabethan statutes, through various degrees of toleration and fascination, right up to the tabloid newspaper campaigns against Gypsy and Traveller encampments of more recent years.

Author : Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković,Thede Kahl,Biljana Sikimić
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783732906949

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Boyash Studies: Researching “Our People” by Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković,Thede Kahl,Biljana Sikimić Pdf

The Boyash, also known as Rudari, Lingurari or, inclusively, as “oamenii noștri” (our people), are an ethnic group living today in scattered communities in the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, but also in the Americas. What brings the disperse communities of Boyash together is their Romanian mother tongue, (memory of) traditional occupation, common historical origin, and the fact that the majority population considers them Gypsies / Roma. A marginal topic until now, at the crossroads between Romani and Romanian studies, the Boyash studies are today an interdisciplinary field dealing with the experiences of the Boyash over time, in Romania and all the places where they have settled. The editors of this volume intend to mark two centuries of scholarly interest in the Boyash by bringing together researchers from different fields, summing up existing literature and bringing new research to the forefront.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 1857431375

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Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Merkl,Weinberg LEONARD
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135764203

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Right-wing Extremism in the Twenty-first Century by Peter Merkl,Weinberg LEONARD Pdf

Revising the 1997 first edition, this study covers events that occurred in Oldham and Bradford after the year 2000. The rise of right-wing extremist groups is put under scrutiny in a number of states including Britain, Germany, Austria, Russia and France.