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Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century

Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century

Paperback

Series: Human Economy, Book 3

EconomicsAnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1785338226
ISBN13: 9781785338229
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Feb 19 2018
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. The authors of this volume explore these complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, how economic opportunities are constructed and seized, and how economic success and failure are transformed into attributes of social persons. They explore how, despite - or perhaps because of - their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, shared today with a growing number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies. The ethnographically based chapters share accounts of socially and economically vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity.

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