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1 online resource (230 pages) |
| Contents |
Exploring Gypsiness; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Transcriptions, Pronunciationsand Vocabulary; Introduction; Parrtt II. The Rom Worrlld; Chapter 1. Roma in the Romanian Figuration; Chapter 2. Cultivating and Harvesting Social Environment; Chapter 3. Gender, Shame and Honour; Chapter 4. Amari Familia: Belonging Together; Chapter 5. Competing for Equality; Chapter 6. Rom Leadership: Joska Bulibasa; Chapter 7. Romanimo: Towardsa Rom Cosmology; Part II. Roma as Villagers; Introduction; Chapter 8. Village Life, Peasant Cosmology; Chapter 9. Exchange and Power. |
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Chapter 10. The Tigan as SignifierEpilogue; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index. |
| 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, alth. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Romanies -- Romania -- Transylvania -- Social life and customs.
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Transylvania (Romania) -- Ethnic relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Ethnic relations |
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Romanies -- Social life and customs |
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Romania -- Transylvania |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Engebrigtsen, Ada I. Exploring Gypsiness : Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village. New York, NY : Berghahn Books, ©2007 9781845455026 |
| ISBN |
9780857457103 (electronic bk.) |
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0857457101 (electronic bk.) |
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1306545749 (ebk) |
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9781306545747 (ebk) |
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1845452291 (alk. paper) |
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9781845452292 (alk. paper) |
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1845451902 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781845451905 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9780857457103 |
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