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

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

Engebrigtsen, Ada I.

Hardcover

AnthropologyEastern European HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1845452291
ISBN13: 9781845452292
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Mar 1 2007
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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