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Exploring Gypsiness - Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Exploring Gypsiness - Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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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, although economically and politically marginal, Rom Gypsies
are central to Romanian collective identity in that they offer
desirable and repulsive counter images, incorporating the
uncivilized, immoral and destructive other. This interdependence
creates tensions, but it also allows for some degree of cultural
and political autonomy for the Roma within Romanian society.
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