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9781845452292

Exploring Gypsiness

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    9781845452292

  • ISBN10:

    1845452291

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-03-30
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Summary

Romania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them. This book focuses on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in Transylvania and explores their social life and cosmology. Because Rom Gypsies are dependent on and define themselves in relation to the surrounding non-Gypsy populations, it is important to understand their day-to-day interactions with these neighbors, primarily peasants to whom they relate through extended barter. The author comes to the conclusion that, although economically and politically marginal, Rom Gypsies are central to Romanian collective identity in that they offer desirable and repulsive counter images, incorporating the uncivilized, immoral and destructive "other". This interdependence creates tensions but it also allows for some degree of cultural and political autonomy for the Roma within Romanian society.

Table of Contents

The Rom world
Roma in the Romanian figurationp. 24
Cultivating and harvesting social environmentp. 41
Gender, shame and honourp. 62
Amari familia : belonging togetherp. 74
Competing for equalityp. 97
Rom leadership : Joska Bulibasap. 117
Romanimo : towards a Rom cosmologyp. 125
Roma as villagers
Village life, peasant cosmologyp. 146
Exchange and powerp. 169
The Tigan as signifierp. 193
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