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Title Gypsy economy : Romani livelihoods and notions of worth in the 21st century / edited by Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha and Martin Fotta.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 263 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The human economy
Human economy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. Authors 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 vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity"--Provided by publisher.
Contents Gypsy Economy; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction -- Gypsy Economy; Chapter 1 -- Usury among the Slovak Roma -- Tomáš Hrustič; Chapter 2 -- New Redistributors in Times of Insecurity -- Judit Durst; Chapter 3 -- A Way of Life Flowing in the Interstices -- Sara Sama Acedo; Chapter 4 -- 'Endured Labour' and 'Fixing Up' Money -- Jan Grill; Chapter 5 -- 'I Go for Iron' -- Marco Solimene; Chapter 6 -- 'I'm Good but also Mad' -- Gergő Pulay; Chapter 7 -- The Mechanisms of Independence -- Martin Olivera; Chapter 8 -- Deceit and Efficacy -- Florencia Ferrari
Chapter 9 -- Houses under Construction -- Cătălina TesărChapter 10 -- Exchange, Shame and Strength among Calon of Bahia -- Martin Fotta; Chapter 11 -- 'Give and Don't Keep Anything!' -- Nathalie Manrique; Afterword; Index
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Subject Romanies -- Europe -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Romanies.
Europe.
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Romanies -- Europe -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Social conditions.
Community life -- Europe.
Community life.
Values -- Social aspects -- Europe.
Values -- Social aspects.
Values.
Capitalism -- Social aspects -- Europe.
Capitalism -- Social aspects.
Marginality, Social -- Economic aspects -- Europe.
Marginality, Social -- Economic aspects.
Marginality, Social.
Europe -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Europe -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Reference.
Romanies -- Economic conditions.
Romanies -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Cunha, Manuela Ivone Pereira da, editor.
Brazzabeni, Micol, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Gypsy economy 9781782388791 (DLC) 2015007889 (OCoLC)934618228
ISBN 9781782388869 electronic book
1782388869 electronic book
9781782388791
1782388796