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Gypsy Identities 1500-2000

Author : David Mayall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135357439
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Gypsy Identities 1500-2000 written by David Mayall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsies have lived in England since the early sixteenth century, yet considerable confusion and disagreement remain over the precise identity of the group. The question 'Who are the Gypsies?' is still asked and the debates about the positioning and permanence of the boundary between Gypsy and non-Gypsy are contested as fiercely today as at any time before. This study locates these debates in their historical perspective, tracing the origins and reproduction of the various ways of defining and representing the Gypsy from the early sixteenth century to the present day. Starting with a consideration of the early modern description of Gypsies as Egyptians, land pirates and vagabonds, the volume goes on to examine the racial classification of the nineteenth century and the emergence of the ethnic Gypsy in the twentieth century. The book closes with an exploration of the long-lasting image of the group as vagrant and parasitic nuisances which spans the whole period from 1500 to 2000.

Gypsies Identities, 1500-2000

Author : David Mayall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857289619
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Gypsies Identities, 1500-2000 written by David Mayall and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsies have lived in England since the early 16th-century, yet considerable confusion and disagreement remain over the precise identity of the group. Amongst other things, this book attempts to answer questions such as, who are the Gypsies?

Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930

Author : Deborah Epstein Nord
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231510330
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 by : Deborah Epstein Nord

Download or read book Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 written by Deborah Epstein Nord and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein Nord traces various representations of Gypsies in the works of such well-known British authors John Clare, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, and D. H. Lawrence. Nord also exhumes lesser-known literary, ethnographic, and historical texts, exploring the fascinating histories of nomadic writer George Borrow, the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora Yates, and other rarely examined figures and institutions. Gypsies were both idealized and reviled by Victorian and early-twentieth-century Britons. Associated with primitive desires, lawlessness, cunning, and sexual excess, Gypsies were also objects of antiquarian, literary, and anthropological interest. As Nord demonstrates, British writers and artists drew on Gypsy characters and plots to redefine and reconstruct cultural and racial difference, national and personal identity, and the individual's relationship to social and sexual orthodoxies. Gypsies were long associated with pastoral conventions and, in the nineteenth century, came to stand in for the ancient British past. Using myths of switched babies, Gypsy kidnappings, and the Gypsies' murky origins, authors projected onto Gypsies their own desires to escape convention and their anxieties about the ambiguities of identity. The literary representations that Nord examines have their roots in the interplay between the notion of Gypsies as a separate, often despised race and the psychic or aesthetic desire to dissolve the boundary between English and Gypsy worlds. By the beginning of the twentieth century, she argues, romantic identification with Gypsies had hardened into caricature-a phenomenon reflected in D. H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gipsy-and thoroughly obscured the reality of Gypsy life and history.

'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

Author : Frances Timbers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317036522
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book 'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 written by Frances Timbers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the early sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century. Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets, rogue literature, and plays), and archival material (quarter sessions and assize cases, parish records and constables's accounts), the book argues that the construction of gypsy identity was part of a wider discourse concerning the increasing vagabond population, and was further informed by the religious reformations and political insecurities of the time. The developing narrative of a fraternity of dangerous vagrants resulted in the gypsy population being designated as a special category of rogues and vagabonds by both the state and popular culture. The alleged Egyptian origin of the group and the practice of fortune-telling by palmistry contributed elements of the exotic, which contributed to the concept of the mysterious alien. However, as this book reveals, a close examination of the first gypsies that are known by name shows that they were more likely Scottish and English vagrants, employing the ambiguous and mysterious reputation of the newly emerging category of gypsy. This challenges the theory that sixteenth-century gypsies were migrants from India and/or early predecessors to the later Roma population, as proposed by nineteenth-century gypsiologists. The book argues that the fluid identity of gypsies, whose origins and ethnicity were (and still are) ambiguous, allowed for the group to become a prime candidate for the 'other', thus a useful tool for reinforcing the parameters of orthodox social behaviour.

Gypsies

Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191080519
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gypsies written by David Cressy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Race and Identity in D. H. Lawrence

Author : J. Ruderman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137398833
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Race and Identity in D. H. Lawrence written by J. Ruderman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Identity in D. H. Lawrence is a wide-ranging examination of Lawrence's adoption and adaptation of stereotypes about minorities, with a focus on three particular 'racial' groups. This book explores societal attitudes in England, Europe, and the United States and Lawrence's utilization of cultural norms to explore his own identity.

The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe

Author : Huub van Baar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178920643X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe written by Huub van Baar and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of increasing anti-migrant and anti-Roma sentiment, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe. From backgrounds ranging from political theory, postcolonial, cultural and gender studies to art history, feminist critique and anthropology, the contributors reflect on the extent to which a politics of identity regarding historically disadvantaged, racialized minorities such as the Roma can still be legitimately articulated.

Collective Rights and the Cultural Identity of the Roma

Author : Claudia Tavani
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004202617
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Collective Rights and the Cultural Identity of the Roma by : Claudia Tavani

Download or read book Collective Rights and the Cultural Identity of the Roma written by Claudia Tavani and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Italy and the Roma as a case study, this book proves that non-discrimination provisions are not sufficient to protect the cultural identity of minorities: a system encompassing also the use of collective rights is better suited for this purpose.

Romani Writing

Author : Paola Toninato
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317970853
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Romani Writing written by Paola Toninato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roma (commonly known as "Gypsies") have largely been depicted in writings and in popular culture as an illiterate group. However, as Romani Writing shows, the Roma have a deep understanding of literacy and its implications, and use writing for a range of different purposes. While some Romani writers adopt an "oral" use of the written medium, which aims at opposing and deconstructing anti-Gypsy stereotypes, other Romani authors use writing for purposes of identity-building. Writing is for Romani activists and intellectuals a key factor in establishing a shared identity and introducing a common language that transcends linguistic and geographical boundaries between different Romani groups. Romani authors, acting in-between different cultures and communication systems, regard writing as an act of cultural mediation through which they are able to rewrite Gypsy images and negotiate their identity while retaining their ethnic specificity. Indeed, Romani Writing demonstrates how Romani authors have started to create self-images in which the Roma are no longer portrayed as "objects", but become "subjects" of written representation.

Wastelands

Author : Eirik Saethre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0520368517
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Wastelands written by Eirik Saethre and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wastelands is an in-depth exploration of trash, the scavengers who collect it, and the precarious communities it sustains. After enduring war and persecution in Kosovo, many Ashkali refugees fled to Belgrade, Serbia, where they were stigmatized as Gypsies, consigned to slums, sidelined from the economy, and subjected to violence. To survive, Ashkali collect the only resource available to them: garbage. Vividly recounting everyday life in an illegal Romani settlement, Eirik Saethre's searing book follows Ashkali as they scavenge through dumpsters, build shacks, siphon electricity, negotiate the recycling trade, and migrate between Belgrade, Kosovo, and the European Union. Saethre argues that trash is not just a means of survival--it reinforces the status of Ashkali as a polluted Other, creates indissoluble bonds to transnational capitalism, enfeebles bodies, and establishes a localized sovereignty. In these geographies of displacement, suffering is boring and trash is transformative.

“Gypsies” in European Literature and Culture

Author : V. Glajar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023061163X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book “Gypsies” in European Literature and Culture written by V. Glajar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces representations of "Gypsies" that have become prevalent in the European imagination and culture and influenced the perceptions of Roma in Eastern and Western European societies.

Gypsies in Contemporary Egypt

Author : Alexandra Parrs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774168305
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Gypsies in Contemporary Egypt written by Alexandra Parrs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Danger! Educated Gypsy

Author : Ian Hancock
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 9781902806990
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Danger! Educated Gypsy written by Ian Hancock and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a timely collection of Ian Hancock's selected writings. His impact upon Romani Studies has been truly remarkable, both in terms of his contributions to linguistics and Gypsy historiography and in his re-assessment of Romani identity within the Western cultural fabric

The Gypsy Debate

Author : Joanna Richardson
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 184540484X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The Gypsy Debate written by Joanna Richardson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jo Richardson explores the extent to which modes of discourse reflect antipathy towards gypsies and travellers, and control and shape the treatment of this minority group by the rest of society. The focus is housing policy, but her discussion has a wide application.

Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity

Author : M. Eliav-Feldon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137291370
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Book Synopsis Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity by : M. Eliav-Feldon

Download or read book Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity written by M. Eliav-Feldon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern Europe was teeming with impostors. Identity theft was only one form of misrepresentation: royal pretenders, envoys from imaginary lands, religious dissimulators, cross-dressers, false Gypsies - all these caused deep anxiety, leading authorities to invent increasingly sophisticated means for unmasking deception.

Dynamics of National Identity and Transnational Identities in the Process of European Integration

Author : Elena Marushiakova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527565610
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Dynamics of National Identity and Transnational Identities in the Process of European Integration by : Elena Marushiakova

Download or read book Dynamics of National Identity and Transnational Identities in the Process of European Integration written by Elena Marushiakova and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection was inspired by the international conference "Dynamics of National Identity and Transnational Identities in the Process of European Integration", organized by the Balkan Ethnology Department of the Ethnographic Institute and Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and realized as project of the European Commission Jean Monnet Action Program for the support of Study and Research Centers. The book opens a debate on the changing notions of identity in the region of Central and Eastern Europe on the base of analysis of social developments influenced by EU accession and EU integration process. The most important aspect is the analysis of processes of breaking up the borders of national identity and transition towards new forms of transnational identities and emerging of consciosness of All-European unity. The book has a dual focus: on general topics related to the study of national and transnational identities and on the process of European integration. It brings together the work of researchers not only from different parts of Europe (from France to Russia) but from USA and Asia too. This book is a starting point for East-West discussion and brings new knowledge that will be an invaluable contribution to the common European research area.

Roma in Europe

Author : Ioana Bunescu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317061896
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Roma in Europe written by Ioana Bunescu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking book explains the processes through which the heterogeneous population of Roma in Europe constitutes itself into a transnational collective identity through the practices and discourses of everyday life, as well as through those of identity politics. It illustrates how the collective identity formation of the Roma in Europe is constituted simultaneously in the local, national, and European contexts, drawing attention to the mismatches and gaps between these levels, as well as the creative opportunities for achieving this political aim. Bunescu demonstrates that the differences and stereotypes between the Roma and the non-Roma, as well as those among different groups of Roma, fulfil a politically creative function for the constitution of a unified transnational collective identity for the Roma in Europe. The book is unique - comprising chapters ranging from local ethnographic accounts of inter-ethnic relations of rural Roma in a Transylvanian village, to interviews with international Roma political activists, controversial Roma kings, and an extensive chapter on their role of bridging the local and the higher levels of identity politics, visual depictions of a diversity of Roma living spaces and interpretations of the politics of space in private dwellings, as well as in public venues, such as at Roma international festivals.