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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This
collection scrutinizes the methodological and ethical challenges
that researchers face when working with and for Gypsy, Roma and
Traveller communities in the context of global crises. Contributors
assess the impact of the pandemic on their engaged research,
evaluating novel methods and technologies. They reveal how current
research practice blurs the borders between activism and
scholarship, and they argue the need for innovative collaborations
with local communities. Showcasing emerging aspects of GRT-related
scholarship, this book makes a key contribution to larger debates
on the positionality of researchers and the politics of research,
and affirms the continued value of rigorous ethnography.
Throughout the twentieth century, Spanish people have deployed
conflicting sexual moralities in their struggle for political
supremacy within the state. The Spanish Gypsies or Gitanos, who
live at the very bottom of the Spanish socio-economic scale, have
appropriated this concern with gender morality and, in the process,
have reinvented themselves as the only honourable Spaniards.
Although the Gitano gender ideology has a distinctively Spanish
flavour, it revolves around a conceptualization of the female body
that is radically different from that of other Spaniards.
The subtle exploration of these acts of cultural invention is one
of the original features of this important new ethnography. Another
even more striking aspect of the work is the author's vision of the
'impermanent' nature of the Gitano social order and the absence of
any representation of 'community' or 'society'. Unlike their
non-Gypsy neighbours, Gitanos do not use concepts of tradition,
territory or social harmony as bases for their singularity.
Instead, they focus on the evaluation of personal moral
performances in the present. In a cultural universe where all
activities are markers of shared identity, and where personhood is
always sexed, men and women continually enact the superiority of
Gypsies over non-Gypsies. Through dress, manner and the management
of emations, or at wedding rituals where the virginity of young
brides is put to the test, the body works as the site of these
processes.
This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between
Liria Hernandez, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco,
a non-Roma anthropologist. In this unique reciprocal experiment,
the former informant returns the gaze to write about the
anthropologist, her life and her environment. Through finely
crafted and deeply moving text, Hernandez and Gay y Blasco suggest
new ways of doing and writing anthropology. The dialogue between
Hernandez and Gay y Blasco provides a courageous account of the
entanglements and rewards of anthropological research. Drawing on
letters, conversations, and fieldnotes gathered over twenty-five
years, each of the authors talks about herself, the other, and the
impact of anthropology on their two lives. They examine their
intertwined trajectories as Spanish women and reflect on the
challenges of devising their own reciprocal genre. Blending
ethnography, life story and memoir, they undermine the dichotomy
between author and subject around which scholarship still revolves.
How to Read Ethnography is an essential guide to approaching
anthropological texts. It helps students to cultivate the skills
they need to critically examine and understand how ethnographies
are built up, as well as to think anthropologically and develop an
anthropological imagination of their own. The authors reveal how
ethnographically-informed anthropology plays a distinctive and
valuable role in comprehending the complexity of the world we live
in. This fully revised second edition includes fresh excerpts from
key texts for analysis and comparison along with lucid
explanations. In addition to concerns with argument, authority, and
the relationship between theory and data, the book engages with the
purpose, value, and accountability of ethnographic texts, as well
as with their reception and usage. A brand new chapter looks at the
kinds of collaboration between informants/consultants and
anthropologists that go into the making of ethnographic writing.
Throughout the twentieth century, Spanish people have deployed
conflicting sexual moralities in their struggle for political
supremacy within the state. The Spanish Gypsies or Gitanos, who
live at the very bottom of the Spanish socio-economic scale, have
appropriated this concern with gender morality and, in the process,
have reinvented themselves as the only honourable Spaniards.
Although the Gitano gender ideology has a distinctively Spanish
flavour, it revolves around a conceptualization of the female body
that is radically different from that of other Spaniards.
The subtle exploration of these acts of cultural invention is one
of the original features of this important new ethnography. Another
even more striking aspect of the work is the author's vision of the
'impermanent' nature of the Gitano social order and the absence of
any representation of 'community' or 'society'. Unlike their
non-Gypsy neighbours, Gitanos do not use concepts of tradition,
territory or social harmony as bases for their singularity.
Instead, they focus on the evaluation of personal moral
performances in the present. In a cultural universe where all
activities are markers of shared identity, and where personhood is
always sexed, men and women continually enact the superiority of
Gypsies over non-Gypsies. Through dress, manner and the management
of emations, or at wedding rituals where the virginity of young
brides is put to the test, the body works as the site of these
processes.
How to Read Ethnography is an essential guide to approaching
anthropological texts. It helps students to cultivate the skills
they need to critically examine and understand how ethnographies
are built up, as well as to think anthropologically and develop an
anthropological imagination of their own. The authors reveal how
ethnographically-informed anthropology plays a distinctive and
valuable role in comprehending the complexity of the world we live
in. This fully revised second edition includes fresh excerpts from
key texts for analysis and comparison along with lucid
explanations. In addition to concerns with argument, authority, and
the relationship between theory and data, the book engages with the
purpose, value, and accountability of ethnographic texts, as well
as with their reception and usage. A brand new chapter looks at the
kinds of collaboration between informants/consultants and
anthropologists that go into the making of ethnographic writing.
A ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO
workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals,
and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of
COVID-19 on Romani communities globally. The contributors reveal
how the pandemic has exacerbated Romani disenfranchisement and
document the resilience and creativity with which Romanies have
responded to the crisis. Deploying innovative textual formats, and
including poignant personal reflections, memoirs, scholarly
analyses, and diary excerpts, the volume provides a roadmap for
collaboration and dialogue at a time of global emergency. This is
the most significant chronicle of Romani stories about the COVID
crisis ever assembled. From the Introduction: The contributions
include memoirs, opinion essays, transcriptions of conversations or
interviews, ethnographic analyses, and a compelling short story by
Romani writer Iveta Kokyová, as well as pieces that stride the
boundaries between one or more of these genres, or that fit into
none.
A ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO
workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals,
and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of
COVID-19 on Romani communities globally. The contributors reveal
how the pandemic has exacerbated Romani disenfranchisement and
document the resilience and creativity with which Romanies have
responded to the crisis. Deploying innovative textual formats, and
including poignant personal reflections, memoirs, scholarly
analyses, and diary excerpts, the volume provides a roadmap for
collaboration and dialogue at a time of global emergency. This is
the most significant chronicle of Romani stories about the COVID
crisis ever assembled. From the Introduction: The contributions
include memoirs, opinion essays, transcriptions of conversations or
interviews, ethnographic analyses, and a compelling short story by
Romani writer Iveta Kokyová, as well as pieces that stride the
boundaries between one or more of these genres, or that fit into
none.
This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between
Liria Hernandez, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco,
a non-Roma anthropologist. In this unique reciprocal experiment,
the former informant returns the gaze to write about the
anthropologist, her life and her environment. Through finely
crafted and deeply moving text, Hernandez and Gay y Blasco suggest
new ways of doing and writing anthropology. The dialogue between
Hernandez and Gay y Blasco provides a courageous account of the
entanglements and rewards of anthropological research. Drawing on
letters, conversations, and fieldnotes gathered over twenty-five
years, each of the authors talks about herself, the other, and the
impact of anthropology on their two lives. They examine their
intertwined trajectories as Spanish women and reflect on the
challenges of devising their own reciprocal genre. Blending
ethnography, life story and memoir, they undermine the dichotomy
between author and subject around which scholarship still revolves.
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