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Gypsy Economy : Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century / edited by Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha and Martin Fotta.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Human economy
- The human economy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romanies--Europe--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Romanies.
- Romanies--Europe--Social conditions--21st century.
- Community life--Europe.
- Community life.
- Values--Social aspects--Europe.
- Values.
- Capitalism--Social aspects--Europe.
- Capitalism.
- Marginality, Social--Economic aspects--Europe.
- Marginality, Social.
- Economic conditions.
- Marginality, Social--Economic aspects.
- Capitalism--Social aspects.
- Values--Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Europe--Ethnic relations.
- Europe.
- Ethnic relations.
- Europe--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
- 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:
- Introduction : Gypsy economy / Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha and Martin Fotta
- Usury among the Slovak Roma : notes on relations between lenders and borrowers in a segregated Taboris / Tomáš Hrustič
- New redistributors in times of insecurity : different types of informal lending in Hungary / Judit Durst
- A way of life flowing in the interstices : Cigano horse dealers in Alentejo, Portugal / Sara Sama Acedo
- "Endured labour" and "Fixing up" money : the economic strategies of Roma migrants in Slovakia nd the UK / Jan Grill
- "I go for iron" : Xoraxané Romá collecting scrap metal in Rome / Marco Solimene
- "I'm good but also mad" : the street economy in a poor neighbourhood of Bucharest / Gergő Pulay
- The mechanisms of independence : economic ethics and the domestic mode of production among Gabori Roma in Transylvania / Martin Olivera
- Deceit and efficacy : fortune telling among the Calon Gypsies in São Paulo, Brazil / Florencia Ferrari
- Houses under construction : conspicuous consumption and the values of youth among Romanian Cortorari Gypsies / Cătălina Tesăr
- Exchange, shame and strength among Calon of Bahia : a values-based analysis / Martin Fotta
- "Give and don't keep anything!" : wealth, hierarchy and identity among the Gypsies of two small towns in Andalusia, Spain / Nathalie Manrique.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781782388791
- 1782388796
- OCLC:
- 922639451
- Publisher Number:
- 99966719080
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