ISBN:
9780429964350
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (322 pages)
Series Statement:
Studies in Ethnographic Imagination
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.891/4970439
Keywords:
Romanies-Hungary
;
Romanies-Hungary-Ethnic identity
;
Romanies-Hungary-Social life and customs
;
Hungary-Ethnic relations
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- Foreword, Maurice Bloch -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- 1: Introduction: The Lowest of the Low -- Post-Communist Gypsies, or Roma -- Communists and Gypsies -- Modernity and Diversity -- The Local Setting and the Problem of Difference -- Gaiety in the Face of Despair, -- Part One: The Gypsy Way -- 2: Gypsy Work -- An Origin Story -- The Free Lunch -- Gypsy Horses -- 3: A Place of Their Own -- Gypsy Settlements -- Work -- The Ethics of Communal Life -- Idioms of Community and Identity: Romanes -- 4: "We Are All Brothers Here -- A World Apparently Made of Men -- Alternative Images of Sociality: Nonbrotherly Relations -- Breaking Down the House -- The Nature of Community and the Means of Resistance -- 5: Breaking Out -- If Only We Lived Alone, -- Šošoj and Čaja: Getting Rich on One's Own -- Čora and Luludji's Story: Upwardly Mobile Gypsies -- The Rejection of Differentiation -- Part Two: Beyond the Ghetto -- 6: Making Workers Out of Gypsies -- Assimilation as Proletarianization -- The Living, Form-giving Fire, -- The Parquet Flooring Factory -- Redemption Through Labor? -- 7: Gaźos, Peasants, Communists, and Gypsies -- Cigány -- Gaźo -- Peasants Who Are Masters of Themselves -- Disorderly Persons -- Communists and Gaźos -- Gypsies, Peasants, and Communists -- 8: Staying Gypsy in a World of Gaźos -- My Heart Was Cut in Two, -- The Real and the Imaginary -- Part Three: The Reinvention of the World -- 9: Sons of the Market -- Horses, Men, and Rom -- Market Society -- A Day at the Market -- The Economics of Horse Dealing -- The Pure Dealer, or Middleman -- Dealers as Managers of Men -- 10: A Passion for Dealing -- From Dependence to Autonomy Through Luck -- Trade and the Construction of Society -- 11: Brothers in Song.
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