Gypsy Origins

Author : Kristy Cunning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1076748821

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Gypsy Origins by Kristy Cunning Pdf

I'm like a snowball rolling downhill.That's the first thing that pops into my mind when I try to explain my life. I don't know exactly 'what' I am, but I do know who I am.At least...I did.Sometimes life sends things your way that upend everything you thought you knew, and then slings you in another direction without any sort of harness or warning.Sometimes it drops someone like me off in the path of four wildly different monsters, who all used to be best friends, but now sort of hate each other and compete over absolutely everything, including...me.Life would be easier if I wasn't already attached to those four monsters, but they occasionally let their guard down around me, and I get a glimpse of what has to stay hidden under all those snowball layers, since they already rolled downhill a long time ago.I'm tired of losing people I care about. I'm tired of searching aimlessly for answers. I'm tired of not having the right questions to ask.I'm really tired of feeling like my vagina is cursed, but that's obviously lower on the list of priorities. But in my vagina's defense, it may not do tricks, but I keep it pretty. It shouldn't keep scaring men/monsters off so easily, and it's honestly starting to make me feel a little insecure.Anyway, I'm finally closer than ever to having all the answers. So long as no new secrets emerge.**Reverse Harem Romance**Dark Humor**Intended for mature audiences.**Cannot be read as a stand-alone**Language warningPrevious books in the series:Gypsy Blood (book 1)Gypsy Freak (book 2)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271047518

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The Spanish Gypsy: The History of a European Obsession by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Mayall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135357436

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Gypsy Identities 1500-2000 by David Mayall Pdf

Gypsies have lived in England since the early sixteenth century, yet considerable confusion and disagreement remain over the precise identity of the group. The question 'Who are the Gypsies?' is still asked and the debates about the positioning and permanence of the boundary between Gypsy and non-Gypsy are contested as fiercely today as at any time before. This study locates these debates in their historical perspective, tracing the origins and reproduction of the various ways of defining and representing the Gypsy from the early sixteenth century to the present day. Starting with a consideration of the early modern description of Gypsies as Egyptians, land pirates and vagabonds, the volume goes on to examine the racial classification of the nineteenth century and the emergence of the ethnic Gypsy in the twentieth century. The book closes with an exploration of the long-lasting image of the group as vagrant and parasitic nuisances which spans the whole period from 1500 to 2000.

Author : Werner Cohn
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0201113627

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The Gypsies by Werner Cohn Pdf

Author : D. Crowe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349606719

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A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia by D. Crowe Pdf

David Crowe draws from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources to explore the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or Roma, from their entrance into the region in the Middle Ages until the present.

Author : David Crowe,John Kolsti,Ian Hancock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315490243

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The Gypsies of Eastern Europe by David Crowe,John Kolsti,Ian Hancock Pdf

In recent news coverage of the dramatic political events in Eastern Europe, Gypsies have been a favourite sidebar topic. Some of the stories have been truly horrifying, others are written condescendingly and to amuse; but what has become clear is how little we really know about this people. In a concerted effort to uncover the modern history of the Rom in Eastern Europe, the authors examine the Gypsy experience in Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia, with special attention to the Nazi Holocaust as well as to the record of the forced settlement and education programmes instituted by communist regimes.

Author : Frances Timbers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317036517

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'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 by Frances Timbers Pdf

'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the early sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century. Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets, rogue literature, and plays), and archival material (quarter sessions and assize cases, parish records and constables's accounts), the book argues that the construction of gypsy identity was part of a wider discourse concerning the increasing vagabond population, and was further informed by the religious reformations and political insecurities of the time. The developing narrative of a fraternity of dangerous vagrants resulted in the gypsy population being designated as a special category of rogues and vagabonds by both the state and popular culture. The alleged Egyptian origin of the group and the practice of fortune-telling by palmistry contributed elements of the exotic, which contributed to the concept of the mysterious alien. However, as this book reveals, a close examination of the first gypsies that are known by name shows that they were more likely Scottish and English vagrants, employing the ambiguous and mysterious reputation of the newly emerging category of gypsy. This challenges the theory that sixteenth-century gypsies were migrants from India and/or early predecessors to the later Roma population, as proposed by nineteenth-century gypsiologists. The book argues that the fluid identity of gypsies, whose origins and ethnicity were (and still are) ambiguous, allowed for the group to become a prime candidate for the 'other', thus a useful tool for reinforcing the parameters of orthodox social behaviour.

Author : Viorel Achim
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9786155053931

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The Roma in Romanian History by Viorel Achim Pdf

One of the greatest challenges during the enlargement process of the European Union towards the east is how the issue of the Roma or Gypsies is tackled. This ethnic minority group represents a much higher share by numbers, too, in some regions going above 20% of the population. This enormous social and political problem cannot be solved without proper historical studies like this book, the most comprehensive history of Gypsies in Romania. It is based on academic research, synthesizing the entire historical Romanian and foreign literature concerning this topic, and using lot of information from the archives. The main focus is laid on the events of the greatest consequence. Special attention is devoted to aspects linked to the long history of the Gypsies, such as slavery, the process of integration and assimilation into the majority population, as well as the marginalization of Gypsies, which has historic roots. The process of emancipation of Gypsies in the mid-19th century receives due treatment. The deportation of Gypsies to Transnistria during the Antonescu regime, between 1942-1944, is reconstructed in a special chapter. The closing chapters elaborate on the policy toward Gypsies in the decades after the Second World War that explain for the latest developments and for the situation of this population in today's Romania.

Author : Deborah Epstein Nord
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231510332

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Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 by Deborah Epstein Nord Pdf

Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein Nord traces various representations of Gypsies in the works of such well-known British authors John Clare, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, and D. H. Lawrence. Nord also exhumes lesser-known literary, ethnographic, and historical texts, exploring the fascinating histories of nomadic writer George Borrow, the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora Yates, and other rarely examined figures and institutions. Gypsies were both idealized and reviled by Victorian and early-twentieth-century Britons. Associated with primitive desires, lawlessness, cunning, and sexual excess, Gypsies were also objects of antiquarian, literary, and anthropological interest. As Nord demonstrates, British writers and artists drew on Gypsy characters and plots to redefine and reconstruct cultural and racial difference, national and personal identity, and the individual's relationship to social and sexual orthodoxies. Gypsies were long associated with pastoral conventions and, in the nineteenth century, came to stand in for the ancient British past. Using myths of switched babies, Gypsy kidnappings, and the Gypsies' murky origins, authors projected onto Gypsies their own desires to escape convention and their anxieties about the ambiguities of identity. The literary representations that Nord examines have their roots in the interplay between the notion of Gypsies as a separate, often despised race and the psychic or aesthetic desire to dissolve the boundary between English and Gypsy worlds. By the beginning of the twentieth century, she argues, romantic identification with Gypsies had hardened into caricature-a phenomenon reflected in D. H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gipsy-and thoroughly obscured the reality of Gypsy life and history.

Author : Brian Belton
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0759105332

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Questioning Gypsy Identity by Brian Belton Pdf

Brian Belton's powerfully original book examines Gypsy lives against the framework of social theories that illustrate how identity arises out of the cultural complexity of individual biographies, families, and communities. Addressing the lack of contextual and social perspectives in the existing literature and the underlying assumption of a consistent Gypsy lineage, he explores the subject of identity to include the broader social context in which the population exists. He argues that Gypsy identity is created and maintained not only by tradition and heredity, but also by social and ideological factors that give rise to the "ethnic narrative" of Gypsy identity. Growing up in an English Gypsy family, Belton offers a unique "outsider-insider" perspective to Questioning Gypsy Identity, writing what are essentially stories of people--how they are made, their social force, and what they collectively create.

Author : Donald Kenrick
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810864405

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Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies) by Donald Kenrick Pdf

Originating in India, the Gypsies arrived in Europe around the 14th century, spreading not only across the entirety of the continent but also immigrating to the Americas. The first Gypsy migration included farmworkers, blacksmiths, and mercenary soldiers, as well as musicians, fortune-tellers, and entertainers. At first, they were generally welcome as an interesting diversion to the dull routine of that period. Soon, however, they attracted the antagonism of the governing powers, as they have continually done throughout the following centuries. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies) seeks to end such prejudice by clarifying the facts about this nomadic people. Through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics, the history of the Gypsies and their culture is told.

Author : Sarah Houghton-Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198719472

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Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period by Sarah Houghton-Walker Pdf

This publication examines the ways writers and artists from the Romantic period depict gypsies. It examines how various aspects of the contemporary context influence those depictions, and highlights the opportunities offered by the figure of the gypsy for the exploration of a range of hopes and fears.

Author : Brian A Belton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134274086

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Gypsy and Traveller Ethnicity by Brian A Belton Pdf

The book explores the notion of Gypsy and Traveller ethnicity and provides a critique of the conceptual basis of racial and ethnic categorisation. An analysis of the post-war housing situation is given in order to illustrate a connection between social and economic conditions, legislation affecting gypsies and travellers and the visibility and general consciousness of the gypsy and traveller population. The originality of the book lies in its argument that the position of gypsies and travellers largely arises out of social conditions and interaction rather than political, biological or ideological determinants. It puts forward the notion of an ethnic narrative of traveller identity and illustrates how variations of this have been defensively deployed by some travellers and elaborated on by theorists. Belton focuses on the social generation of travellers as a cultural, ethnic and racial categorization, offering a rational explanation of the development of an itinerant population that is less ambiguous and more informative in terms of the social nature of the gypsy and traveller position than interpretations based on 'blood', 'breed', 'stock', ethnicity or race that dominate the literature.

Author : Csongor Könczei
Publisher : Editura ISPMN
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Călata (Romania)
ISBN : 9786068377124

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On the Social and Cultural Network of the Gypsy Musicians of Kalotaszeg by Csongor Könczei Pdf

Author : David Malvinni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135879143

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The Gypsy Caravan by David Malvinni Pdf

A formidable challenge to the study of Roma (Gypsy) music is the muddle of fact and fiction in determining identity. This book investigates "Gypsy music" as a marked and marketable exotic substance, and as a site of active cultural negotiation and appropriation between the real Roma and the idealized Gypsies of the Western imagination. David Malvinni studies specific composers-including Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Janacek, and Bartók-whose work takes up contested and varied configurations of Gypsy music. The music of these composers is considered alongside contemporary debates over popular music and film, as Malvinni argues that Gypsiness remains impervious to empirical revelations about the "real" Roma.