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Author : Donald Kenrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1090059943
Author : Donald Kenrick
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461672272
The A to Z of the Gypsies (Romanies) seeks to end such prejudice by clarifying the facts about this nomadic people. Through 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 : Donald Kenrick,Gillian Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000053933119
There are some seven million gypsies in Europe, an often mythologized people in the past. But now they represent a new political force, both in eastern Europe and as a new westward migration begins.The Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies) provides a wealth of definite, factual information about this people, and their unique culture.
Author : Donald Kenrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Romanies
ISBN : UCSC:32106017606713
Gypsy history and life. Professionals working with Gypsies and migrant Roma from the CEE will also find it invaluable."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ian F. Hancock
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1902806190
The author, himself a Romani, speaks directly to the gadze (non-Gypsy) reader about his people, their history since leaving India one thousand years ago and their rejection and exclusion from society in the countries where they settled, their health, food, culture and society.
Author : Jan Yoors
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478610632
At the age of twelve, Jan Yoors ran away from his cultural Belgian family to join a wandering band, a kumpania, of Gypsies. For ten years, he lived as one of them, traveled with them from country to country, shared both their pleasures and their hardshipsand came to know them as no one, no outsider, ever has. Here, in this firsthand and highly personal account of an extraordinary people, Yoors tells the real story of the Gypsies fascinating customs and their never-ending struggle to survive as free nomads in a hostile world. He vividly describes the texture of their daily life: the Gypsies as lovers, spouses, parents, healers, and mourners; their loyalties and enmities; their moral and ethical beliefs and practices; their language and culture; and the history and traditions behind their fierce pride. The exultant celebrations, the daring frontier crossings, the yearly horse fairs, the convoluted business deals in which Gypsy shrewdness combined with all the apparatus of modern technology are all brought to life in this memorable portrait of the most romanticized, yet most maligned and least-known people on earth. An insiders story, The Gypsies lifts the veil of secrecy that for so long has enshrouded this race of strangers in our midst.
Author : Samuel Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Romanies
ISBN : UCD:31175003657684
Author : David Z. Scheffel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442606838
Roma—or Gypsies as some people still call them—constitute Europe's largest, poorest, and most enigmatic minority. In spite of their centuries-long coexistence with mainstream Europeans, our picture of this people remains rooted in stereotypes and myths that have little in common with contemporary social reality. Full-fledged citizens of the European Union, and ostensibly protected by the world's most progressive human rights legislation, many Roma live under conditions that challenge our notions of Europe, modernity, and pluralism. This book is about a Romani settlement in eastern Slovakia. It is a community that has grown to become one of the largest and most problematic townships of rural Roma in the entire district. The dark-skinned squatters on the margins of Svinia are segregated from the surrounding society by means of physical and social barriers entrenched in local ideology and enforced by rules and conventions reminiscent of apartheid. David Scheffel offers a detailed ethnographic account of the social, cultural, and historical circumstances that have encouraged and supported inter-ethnic inequality in the region. In the process, he demonstrates the complexity of what is often referred to as Europe's "Gypsy problem" with passion and sensitivity.
Author : Micol Brazzabeni,Manuela Ivone Cunha,Martin Fotta
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782388869
Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. The authors of this volume explore these complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, how economic opportunities are constructed and seized, and how economic success and failure are transformed into attributes of social persons. They explore how, despite — or perhaps because of — their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, shared today with a growing number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies. The ethnographically based chapters share accounts of socially and economically vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity.
Author : Nicholas Saul,Susan Tebbutt
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0853236895
Since the arrival of the "Gypsies," or Romanies, in Europe at the beginning of the eleventh century, Europeans have simultaneously feared and romanticized them. That ambiguity has contributed to centuries of confusion over the origins, culture, and identity of the Romanies, a confusion that too often has resulted in marginalization, persecution, and scapegoating. The Role of the Romaniesbrings together international experts on Romany culture from the fields of history, sociology, linguistics, and anthropology to address the many questions and problems raised by the vexed relationship between Romany and European cultures. The book's first section considers the genesis, development, and scope of the field of Romany studies, while the second part expands from there to consider constructions of Romany culture and identity. Part three focuses on twentieth-century literary representations of Romany life, while the final part considers how the role of the Romanies will ultimately be remembered and recorded. Together, the essays provide an absorbing portrait of a frequently misunderstood people.
Author : Bath C. Smart,Henry Thomas Crofton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Romanies
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020563052
Author : Donald Kenrick
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1902806239
This illustrated text traces the origin of the Gypsies in India and their journey westward to their arrival on the shores of the Thames. It also looks at their distant relatives who stayed in India or dropped off on the way west and who carry on a nomadic life in Persia and neighbouring countries
Author : Jean-Paul Clébert
Publisher : London : Vista Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Gypsies
ISBN : UOM:39015000516768
Author : Brigid O'Keeffe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442665873
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 : George Borrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Romani language
ISBN : WISC:89098050875