Rokkering to the Gorjios

Rokkering to the Gorjios

Author: Jeremy Sandford

Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9781902806044

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In this compilation, gypsies speak of their hopes, fears and aspirations. The interviews reveal a vanishing world in words and pictures.


Roma, Gypsies

Roma, Gypsies

Author: Marielle Danbakli

Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781902806150

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A collection of texts, in a single handy volume, issued by the European Community (the Council and the European Parliament), the Council of Europe, (including the Committee of Europe, CLARAE, CAHID and the CDCC) and other international institutions including the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, the United Nations and the UN High Commission for Refugees.


Gypsies

Gypsies

Author: David Cressy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0191080519

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Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? Can they even be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all? Gypsies have frequently been vilified, and not much less frequently romanticized, by the settled population over the centuries. Social historian David Cressy now attempts to disentangle the myth from the reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of English history. In this, the first comprehensive historical study of the doings and dealings of Gypsies in England, he draws on original archival research, and a wide range of reading, to trace the many moments when Gypsy lives became entangled with those of villagers and townsfolk, religious and secular authorities, and social and moral reformers. Crucially, it is a story not just of the Gypsy community and its peculiarities, but also of England's treatment of that community, from draconian Elizabethan statutes, through various degrees of toleration and fascination, right up to the tabloid newspaper campaigns against Gypsy and Traveller encampments of more recent years.


Transnational Resilience and Change

Transnational Resilience and Change

Author: Dan Allen

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-01-23

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1527526895

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This edited collection draws together contributions from various social scientific fields and explores the mechanisms and strategies that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities employ to preserve identities and cultural practices in different situational and national contexts. The book has a global focus with case studies from different European nations, as well as from Australia, North and South America. While several chapters acknowledge the power of cultural maintenance in the preservation of identity, others take a critical stance towards those aspects of inwardly focused and self-regulated examples of cultural isolation and highlight the implications that cultural marginality can have for members of these groups. The book is therefore essential reading for students in professional fields such as social work, education and community development. It is also relevant to academics with interests in anthropology, ethnography, migration studies, politics, public administration, sociology and social policy. Many of the book’s themes have a cross-disciplinary and transnational relevance and will be of interest to a range of international audiences.


Gypsies and Travellers in housing

Gypsies and Travellers in housing

Author: David M. Smith

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1847428738

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This book examines the increasing--and increasingly enforced--settlement of Gypsies and Travellers into conventional housing. The authors evaluate a range of Gypsy- and Traveller-related policies in areas such as social housing, community cohesion and regeneration, and race relations and equality. Analyzing the impact of these policies, they offer an unprecedented look into the changing culture and dynamics of ethnic Gypsy and Traveller communities. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates the tenacity and adaptability of cultural formations in the face of policy-driven constraints that are antithetical to traditional lifestyles.


From Coppersmith to Nurse

From Coppersmith to Nurse

Author: Gunilla Lundgren

Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781902806228

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The life of Alyosha Taikon, the Swedish born son of a coppersmith, a member of the Kalderash clan of Romanies from Hungary. After working as a coppersmith and in the family circus he trained to be a male nurse, a decision which led to his rejection by the Gypsy community.


Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire

Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire

Author: Elena Marushiakova

Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781902806020

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The Roma presence in the European part of the Ottoman Empire - the Balkans - is centuries old and it is not by accident that this regions has often been called the second motherland of the Gypsies. From this region Gypsies moved westwards taking with them inherited Balkan cultural models and traditions. This book explores the history, ethnography, social structure and culture of the Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire. It is based on archival sources, mainly detailed tax registers, special laws, guild registers and court documents. Notes on Gypsies in books by foreign travellers are also included.


Gypsies and Flamenco

Gypsies and Flamenco

Author: Bernard Leblon

Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781902806051

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This definitive work on the contribution of the Gypsies to the development of flamenco traces their influences on music from their long migration from India, through Iran, Turkey, Greece, and Hungary, to their persecution in Spain. This new updated edition provides fuller explanations of some of the technical terms and an invaluable biographical dictionary of 200 of the foremost Gypsy flamenco artists from its origins to the present day, as well as a discography and videography.


We are the Romani People

We are the Romani People

Author: Ian F. Hancock

Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781902806198

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The author, himself a Romani, speaks directly to the gadze (non-Gypsy) reader about his people, their history since leaving India one thousand years ago and their rejection and exclusion from society in the countries where they settled, their health, food, culture and society.