| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 228 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index. |
| Summary |
In Gypsies in Contemporary Egypt sociologist Alexandra Parrs draws on two years of fieldwork to explore how Dom identities are constructed, negotiated, and contested in the specifically Egyptian national context. With an eye to the pitfalls and evolution of scholarly work on the vastly more studied European Roma, she traces the scattered representations of Egyptian Dom, from accounts of them by nineteenth-century European Orientalists to their portrayal in Egyptian cinema as belly dancers in the 1950s and beggars and thieves more recently. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The eternal quest for roots -- From belly dancers to thieves -- Uncrossable boundaries? -- Identity negotiation : ignoring, passing, changing, and exchanging -- Underground world : crime in the blood and secret language -- Matriarchy and bride price : Ghagar traditions? -- Conclusions : the fragmented construction of Egyptians gypsies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Romanies -- Egypt.
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Romanies. |
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Egypt. |
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Romanies -- Egypt -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Romanies -- Egypt -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
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Social conditions. |
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Manners and customs. |
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies. |
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Romanies -- Social conditions. |
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Romanies -- Social life and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Parrs, Alexandra. Gypsies in contemporary Egypt. Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, 2017 9781617978487 (OCoLC)962242325 |
| ISBN |
9781617978487 (electronic book) |
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1617978485 (electronic book) |
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9781617978494 (electronic book) |
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1617978493 (electronic book) |
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9774168305 |
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9789774168307 |
| Standard No. |
99976155732 |
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