Time of the Gypsies

HIS IS A STUDY OF HOW some of the most marginal and exploited people that exist can imagine themselves to be princes of the world.During the past two hundred years the Gypsies of Eastern Europe have faced near enslavement by land owners, the physical and moral onslaught of the Nazi holocaust, the fundamental challenge to their central values from the Communist state, and the violent discrimination and dislocation caused by the return to capitalism. One would have thought that the challenge would be too great, that they would have suffered cultural

List of contents

List of Tables and Illustrations -- Foreword /Maurice Bloch -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- 1 Introduction: The Lowest of the Low -- Part One -- The Gypsy Way -- 2 Gypsy Work -- 3 A Place of Their Own Gypsy Settlements -- 4 "We Are All Are Brothers Here" -- 5 Breaking Out -- Part Two -- Beyond The Ghetto -- 6 Making Workers Out of Gypsies -- 7 Gaos, Peasants, Communists, and Gypsies -- 8 Staying Gypsy in a World of Gatos -- Part Three -- The Reinvention of the World -- 9 Sons of the Market -- 10 A Passion for Dealing -- 11 Brothers in Song -- 12 The Shame of the Body -- 13 Conclusion: Marginality, Resistance, and Ideology -- Glossary -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Book and Author -- Index.

About the author

Michael Stewart received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and is currently a reporter with the BBC.

Summary

This book provides an account of the changing attitudes and policies towards the Gypsies in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Communist Europe and in post-Communist Hungary. It presents a general study of the dramatic transformations that have occurred throughout Eastern Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Stewart
• Assisted by: Pierre Bourdieu (Editor), John Comaroff (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.06.1998
• EAN: 9780813331997
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-3199-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Studies in the Ethnographic Im
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Osteuropa, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Eastern Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity