Gypsies: An Interdisciplinary Reader

by Tong,Diane

• ISBN13: 9780815325499
• ISBN10: 0815325495
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book of interdisciplinary readings on Gypsies is sensitive to the Romani point of view and avoids exoticizing or patronizing the Gypsies and their culture. Recurrent themes in the readings include: the historical oppression of the Gypsies including contemporary xenophobia and violence; the nonstatic, heterogeneous nature of Gypsy cultures; the persistence of racist stereotypes; and personal and institutional Gypsy/non-Gypsy relationships. Nearly all of the classic essays updated for this volume tell stories of the persistance of the Roma in the face of savage atrocities and appalling living conditions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
Introduction	ix
Gypsy Studies Researching Finnish Gypsies: Advice from a Gypsy	3	(10)
Saga Weckman
Politics, Social Change, and History	13	(102)
Ways of Looking at Roma: The Case of Czechoslovakia	13	(56)
Will Guy
Wanderers: Romania's Hidden Victims	69	(6)
Dan Pavel
Police Perception of Gypsies in Finland	75	(22)
Martti Gronfors
"Mastering the Past": Germans and Gypsies	97	(18)
Gabrielle Tyrnauer
Language Duty and Beauty, Possession and Truth: "Lexical Impoverishment" as Control	115	(14)
Ian Hancock
Educational Perspectives	129	(18)
Pictures of Ourselves	129	(6)
Cathy Kiddle
Using the Gypsies' Own Language: Two Contrasting Approaches in Hungarian Schools	135	(6)
Thomas Acton
Afterword ("Roma in the Hungarian Educational System: Still the Invisible Minority")	141	(6)
Nidhi Trehan
Performing Arts	147	(54)
Roma (Gypsies) in the Soviet Union and the Moscow Teatr "Romen,"	147	(20)
Alaina Lemon
"The Duende Roams Freely This Night": An Analysis of an Interethnic Event in Granada, Spain	167	(8)
Bertha B. Quintana
Andalusian, Gypsy, and Class Identity in the Contemporary Flamenco Complex	175	(26)
Peter Manuel
Social Organization	201	(70)
American Roma and the Ideology of Defilement	201	(18)
Carol Miller
Sex Dichotomy Among the American Kalderas Gypsies	219	(14)
Rena M. Cotten (Gropper)
Economic Stratification and Interaction: Roma, an Ethnic Jati in East Slovakia	233	(38)
Milena Hubschmannova
Images of Gypsies	271	(72)
Black . Quadroon . Gypsy: Women in the Art of George Fuller	271	(16)
Sarah Burns
The Church of Knowledge: Representations of Gypsies in Dutch Encyclopedias and Their Sources (1724-1984)	287	(32)
Wim Willems
Leo Lucassen
Johnny Faa and Black Jack Davy: Cultural Values and Change in Scots and American Balladry	319	(24)
Christine A. Cartwright
The Contributors	343	(8)
Permissions Acknowledgments	351