Exploring Gypsiness : Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engebrigtsen, Ada I.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanies--Romania--Transylvania--Social life and customs.

Transylvania (Romania)--Ethnic relations.

Local Subjects:

Romanies--Romania--Transylvania--Social life and customs.

Transylvania (Romania)--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2007.

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

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

Chapter 10. The Tigan as SignifierEpilogue; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780857457103

0857457101