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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The American Utopia: Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism
• 3. The Social Rhythms of Life
• 4. A Family Culture: Kinship, Gender and Morality
• 5. The Enigma of Circulation
• 6. The Magic of Words
• 7. Conclusion. .

""Barvalo" : "riche" et par extension "fier" en langue romani. Ce mot a valeur d'étendard et défend neuf siècles de présence européenne et d'affirmation culturelle, tout en s'intéressant à l'histoire et à la diversité des populations romani. Si celles-ci constituent la plus grande minorité ethnique d'Europe, elles font, aujourd'hui encore, l'objet de nombreuses discriminations. L'exposition "Barvalo", comme cet ouvrage qui l'accompagne, entend "renverser les regards" et lutter contre les stéréotypes et un antitsiganisme pluriséculaires. Identifier et valoriser l'héritage et le patrimoine romani, dans les musées comme dans l'espace public, mener une réflexion contrastée sur les notions d'appartenance et d'identité, tels sont les enjeux de ce travail ambitieux. Pour la première fois dans un musée national en France, un projet concernant les populations romani est conçu avec elles, de manière collaborative ; il est né du travail d'un comité composé de dix-neuf personnes d'origine romani ou non, de nationalités et profils différents. Entièrement bilingue français-romani, ce livre témoigne également de la richesse des cultures romani et de la fierté des différentes communautés à contribuer à la diversité culturelle des sociétés européennes il s'agit d'affirmer haut et fort : "Barvalo"."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction. Unexpected beginnings
• Analytical approach : identity, state and kinship
• Narrating beginnings and memories
• Educating Roma children : state and kinship moralities
• The 'hyperreal' vis-à-vis the 'everyday' Roma : identity and activism
• Home and the 'kinning' state
• Gendered strategies : kinship and state moralities
• Conclusion. Unfinished identities

"Roma identities have often been presented in literature as collectively constructed and in opposition to those who are not Roma. Contesting Moralities challenges these preconceptions about Roma identification by disentangling the binaries between Roma and non-Roma, state and non-state, public and private. It explores topics resonating in contemporary Romani studies that are in need of further exploration through individual perspectives, including history, activism, kinship, childhood, and gender hierarchies. The book paints a complex picture of inequality and how it is negotiated amid conflicting, ambiguous and contradictory regimes of power and moral demands, including those of state and kin"-- Provided by publisher

"Der Illinger Historiker Franz Josef Schäfer legt erstmalig die Geschichte der saarländischen Sinti und Roma vor, einer weitgehend vergessenen NS-Opfergruppe. Neben einem historischen Abriss der Minderheit stellt der Autor ihren Verfolgungsweg auf quellenkundlicher Basis dar am Beispiel ausgewählter Familien. Wie die Bevölkerungsgruppe in belletristischen Werken saarländischer Autorinnen und Autoren gesehen wurde, ist ebenfalls vorzufinden. Pfarrer Arnold Fortuin war der erste Seelsorger der Deutschen Sinti und Roma. Bereits seit den Zwanzigerjahren des 20. Jh. betreute der damalige Saarbrücker Kaplan an der Michaelskirche in Saarbrücken St. Johann die Außenseiter und erteilte ihnen Unterricht. In der NS-Zeit gab er ihnen Trost. Nach dem Krieg war er ihr Anwalt und Berater in Entschädigungsfragen. Seit 1955 findet alljährlich eine Wallfahrt von Sinti und Roma statt zur Illinger Bergkapelle. Die Monografie würdigt ausgiebig zum ersten Mal den Menschen und Seelsorger Fortuin, der viele Jahre nach seinem Tod mit dem Bau des Fortuin-Hauses in Berlin sowie der Benennung einer Straße und einer Schule in Illingen eine späte Anerkennung gefunden hat." -- Page 4 of cover.

• Erste Erinnerungen
• Beim Zirkus in Italien
• Über die Grenze nach Kroatien
• Kein Glück in Bosnien
• Umkehr an der türkischen Grenze
• Das Versteck im Maisfeld
• Verkleidete Partisanen
• Überfall auf ein Partisanendorf
• Bei den Kosaken
• Eine postlagernde Nachricht
• Zwischen Holzplatten im Güterwaggon
• Das Arbeitslager in Marburg
• Tanz für die Amerikaner
• Schicksale unserer Verwandten
• Ein deutscher Major auf der Flucht
• Ärger mit der Polizei
• Die entdeckung meiner Stimme
• Erster Preis beim Sänger-Wettstreit
• Engagement in Linz
• Ein Traum wird wahr: das Staatstheater München

• Acknowledgements 6 Introduction: A village of Harmonious Coexistence 9 Place 10 Methodology 13 Romani Studies and Anthropology among Roma in Slovakia 13 Positionality 15 Methodology 18 Writing of the Roma 20 Being Local Roma 25 Silencing Gypsyness 25 Locals but Not Indigenous 28 Facets of a Harmony 35 Chapter One: "Our Roma" and "our Gadze" 37 The Roma in Slovakia 38 Together but Divided 41 Asymmetrical Relations 43 A Shared Understanding of Gypsyness 46 The Language of Gypsyness 47 Silencing Gypsyness 49 "Our Roma" 51 "Our Gadze" 52 Still Just a Gypsy 54 Experience of the Subordinate Position 55 Virtuous Roma and Amoral Gadze 56 Balancing the Gadzo Way of Life 58 The narrative of Social Mobility 60 The Narrative of Resistance 61 Conclusion 63 Chapter Two: Housing and the Politics of Space 66 The Territorialisation of the Roma in Slovakia 68 The Asymmetry of Post-War Construction 70 Politics of the Gypsy Tettlement 71 Actors of Territorialisation 74 Maintaining the Settlement's Size 78 Council Flats for the Roma 80 Continuity of Territorial Stigmatisation 81 Covert Discrimination 83 Territorialisation: the Gadze's Perspective 85 Placing Gypsyness 86 "Jolanian Roma": Local, but Stuck in a Place 88 Amongst the Gadze: Confirming Gypsyness 90 Creating a Safe Space 92 The Settlement: Discontinuity of Material Conditions 93 Beyond Territorial Stigmatisation 95 Conclusion 97 Chapter Three: Language of the "Rusyn Roma" 101 The Romani Language in Slovakia 102 Language Acquisition in Jolany 106 Slovak 108 Rusyn 110 Rusyn in the Local Authorities 111 "So the Gadze Don't Say..." 112 The Mayoress and Kalenak 113 New Domains of Romani? 115 Language as a Tool of Othering 117 Language and Inter-Roma Relations 119 Subverting Linguistic Dominance 120 Romani: The Roma's Shared Cultural Code 122 Romani amongst the Gadze 124 "Original" Romani 125 Romani as a Cryptic Code 127 Conclusion 129 Chapter Four: Gypsy Economy in Jolany 133 The Roma and Work in Slovakia 134 Historical Overview of Economic Strategies in Jolany 136 "Gypsy Work" 138 Non-Romani Actors of the Gypsy Economy 140 "Gypsy Work" and Inter-Roma Relations 142 Being a Trustworthy Worker 144 Shifting the Logic of Adaptation 145 Gypsy Economy in Jolany 147 Visibility of the Gypsy Economy 149 Migration 151 Roma as "(Semi)nomadic Gypsies"? 152 Contesting Gypsyness through Migration 154 Escaping Everyday Racism 156 Jolany as a Safe Space 157 Conclusion 159 Conclusion: The Roma as Locals 163 Harmony as Narrative and Social Practice 165 "So that the Gadze don't Say..." 167 Place 170 Gender 173 Roma and Kinship 175 Epilogue: Is old Jolany Slowly Disappearing? 178 Bibliography 182.
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A crucial contribution to Romani studies focuses on a single Slovak village to explore universal issues of belonging. In this important contribution to contemporary Romani studies, Jan Ort focuses his anthropological research on a village in eastern Slovakia reputed for the ostensibly seamless coexistence of its ethnically and linguistically heterogeneous inhabitants. Ort offers an ethnographic critique of this idyllic view, showing how historical shifts, as well as the naturalization of inequality and hierarchies, have led to the present situation between the village's Roma inhabitants and other ethnic populations. However, he also shows examples and methods of subversion and resistance to the village's current power dynamics. Based primarily on participant observation within Roma families, Ort's long-term research results in a fascinating book replete with ethnographic descriptions that allow readers to understand local experiences, contexts, and divisions. These insights about the village lead to the key question of the book: Who actually is a local? .
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"The book is a collection of rare black and white images of Roma families in California during the early 1990s. Since their exodus from India more than a thousand years ago, the Roma - an ethnic group formerly known as "Gypsies" - have migrated to all continents of the globe. A large wave of Roma came to the United States from Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. The country is home to roughly 50,000 Roma people today, many of them in California. Yet, they remain hidden to the majority of us. Roma: Life with California's Roma Families is a collection of rare black and white images of Romani Americans living in California during the early 1990s. Photojournalist Cristina Salvador Klenz documented the lives of these families over a period of years, capturing their celebrations, social relationships, struggles, and rituals-the latter of which have survived centuries of discrimination and persecution. The photographs include people from the Kalderash and Machvaya nations, whose ancestors immigrated to the United States after being released from slavery in Eastern Europe. Other nations represented include more recent Romani immigrants who had also settled in Eastern Europe but arrived in California after extended stays in Chile and Colombia. An additional group, called the Ludar, has spent decades living in a modern-day camp in Southern California. Although many Romani-American tribes have little social contact with each other, all have been brought together in this set of photographs in hope that readers gain a greater understanding of this vibrant, resilient, and misunderstood people. Theirs is a culture that has been hidden for far too long"-- Provided by publisher

• FOREWORD by Ethel Brooks
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1. DEFINING ETHNIC MOBILIZATION - A SYNERGIC APPROACH
• Ethnic mobilization - a conceptual puzzle
• Defining ethnic mobilization
• Understanding Romani ethnic mobilization
• Framing Romani activism - literature overview
• Delineating Romani ethnic mobilization - actors and processes
• Defining Romani mobilizing structures
• Pro-Roma actors and Romani ethnic mobilization
• CHAPTER 2. POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES - UNDERSTANDING THE BROADER CONTEXT
• Setting the scene: Ethnic mobilization in Europe and Latin America
• Roma as political subjects
• Roma in Europe and Latin America: Comparable cases?
• CHAPTER 3. ROMANI ETHNIC MOBILIZATION IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. LOOKING INTO THE CASE-STUDY COUNTRIES
• Argentina, Colombia and Spain: majority contexts, minority struggles
• Reconstructing the genealogy of Romani presence
• In search of windows of political opportunity
• Anno Domini 2017 - Status of Roma
• CHAPTER 4. WHO IS DOING THE MOBILIZING? ANATOMY OF ROMANI ETHNIC MOBILIZATION THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE ACTORS
• Anatomy of a movement - birth and growth of Romani actors Argentina
• Panorama of Romani mobilizing structures: an overview
• Leadership and composition patterns
• Multiple voices: Between fragmentation and consolidation
• Rationale for ethnic mobilization
• CHAPTER 5. MOBILIZING FRAMES? IDENTITY AND INTERESTS INTERTWINED
• Identity and interests - and potential of collective agency
• Romani identity frames
• Romani frames of collective interest
• Mobilizing frames? Frame alignment and frame correspondence vis-a-vis Romani constituency
• CHAPTER 6. MOBILIZING ROMANI ETHNICITY FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION
• Targets of mobilization - why is this important?
• Targeting structures of power - external upward mobilization
• Building support and seeking allies - external sideways mobilization
• Internal mobilization - community as a resource?
• Conclusion
• CONCLUSIONS: MOBILIZING FOR CHANGE? LIMITS AND POTENTIAL OF ROMANI ETHNIC MOBILIZATION
• Roma issue as a global issue - importance of the trans-continental perspective
• Contributions to Romani Studies
• Romani agency in the world politics - possibilities and opportunities
• BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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The Roma issue is generally treated as a European matter. Indeed, the Roma are the largest European minority-their presence outside of Europe is a result of various waves of migration over the past four hundred years. Likewise, the stereotypes associated with the Roma-the problematized, stigmatized status of a "Gypsy" as well as the historical and contemporary manifestations of antigypsyism-are also of European origin. This book claims, however, that the perception of Roma being strictly a European issue is flawed, and that re-connecting the Roma issue globally represents an important learning experience and an added value. The book offers a critical exploration of Romani political activism in Colombia and Argentina, and compares it to that in Spain, narrated from the intimate perspective of Romani actors themselves. By outlining parallel lineages of Romani activism in three countries and on two continents, the author arrives at broad conclusions regarding the nature of ethnic mobilization. Mirga-Kruszelnicka proposes a new synergetic conceptualization of this multidirectional concept as an interplay between political opportunities, mobilizing structures, and frames of identity. Contributing to the vivid debate about the relationship between the researcher and the researched, the book also includes an original discussion of the positionality of scholars of Romani background.
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• Préface par Bruno Tardieu.
• 1. Puscarie
• 2. Haut, bas, fragile
• 3. Roms, tsiganes... ou juste pauvres ?
• 4. Bidonville, campement, bidonvillage, platz
• 5. Foyer, doux foyer...
• 6. Comment gagner sa vie ?
• 7. Les enfants, la rue, les placements, l'école
• 8. Riverains et voisins
• 9. Dysfonctionnements
• 10. Délinquance et puscarie
• 11. Oser la rencontre
• 12. Quelles politiques ?
• 13. Fragiles... mais pas que!
• 14. Deux images.

"Les Roms sont l'objet en France d'un rejet très fort qui s'appuie sur des préjugés tenaces. Nicolas Clément qui, depuis près de dix ans, accompagne quotidiennement une centaine de familles roms en région parisienne, donne à voir dans cet ouvrage une réalité très éloignée des idées reçues. Dans des récits sensibles et incarnés, étayés par des informations et données précises, il raconte ces vies en montagnes russes, faites d'angoisses et d'espoirs, mais surtout de précarité et de fragilité : les recherches d'emploi, les appels au Samu social, la difficile scolarisation des enfants quand les logements sont éphémères, les nuits passées à récupérer des vêtements pour les vendre aux puces de Montreuil, les expulsions des baraquements détruits au petit matin, la détresse des parents à qui sont enlevés leurs enfants, les actes de rejet du voisinage et la mendicité comme dernier recours ; mais aussi la joie de vivre et l'accueil chaleureux qu'il trouve auprès de ces familles au gré de ses visites, la fierté des enfants qui avancent dans leurs apprentissages, la solidarité de camarades d'école, la générosité de voisins qui prennent te temps d'un échange... Battant en brèche tes représentations dont les Roms payent lourdement le prix, ce livre est une invitation à oser la rencontre."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Reimagining the Ban? S?s?n and Their Language
• Chapter 2: Professional Niches, Migrations and Diaspora
• Chapter 3: Material Culture
• Chapter 4: Urban Spaces
• Chapter 5: A Gypsy Litterateur from B?b al-L?q, Cairo Chapter Six: Conclusion.
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• List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1.
• The Roma, Banu Sasan, and the Ghuraba' 2.
• Sin: The Language of the Banu Sasan and Ghuraba' 3.
• Gharib Literary Cultures in Mamluk Cairo 4.
• Housing, Neighborhoods, and Cemeteries of Urban Ghuraba' 5.
• Illustrated Astrological Books (Bulhans) 6.
• A New Narrative of Premodern Afro-Eurasian Printing 7.
• Ghuraba' Astrologers and Print in 15th-Century Central Europe Appendix 1: Appendix 2: Glossary
• Notes Bibliography Index.
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The recorded history of gypsy communities in Europe begins with the arrival of the Roma in the fourteenth century, although genetic and linguistic evidence demonstrates that this group left northwest India sometime before the seventh. Remarkably, this leaves a 700-year unexplored void as the communities migrated across the Middle East. The main problem facing historians studying so-called gypsies and gypsy-like communities is a linguistic one - namely not knowing how to identify or recognise them in the medieval Arabic and Persian sources. Drawing on ground-breaking linguistic research, Kristina Richardson here demonstrates that the Banu Sasan - literally `from the tribe of Sasan' and commonly identified in scholarship as a fringe criminal gang or underworld brotherhood - should be less creatively imagined and viewed as an ordinary tribal confederation: the `missing' gypsy community. Having established this, Richardson fleshes out the existence of these communities across the medieval Middle East, touching on topics as diverse as their professions, their migration patterns, the art they left behind, the urban spaces they lived in and influenced, their daily life and their literature. Richardson's ground-breaking book will provide the foundation for future studies of the Romani in the period, in addition to revealing a great deal about the cities, communities, religions and cultures that they lived within as they moved and settled across the medieval Islamic world.
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Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history In Middle Eastern cities as early as the mid-8th century, the Sons of Sasan begged, trained animals, sold medicinal plants and potions, and told fortunes. They captivated the imagination of Arab writers and playwrights, who immortalized their strange ways in poems, plays, and the Thousand and One Nights. Using a wide range of sources, Richardson investigates the lived experiences of these Sons of Sasan, who changed their name to Ghuraba' (Strangers) by the late 1200s. This name became the Arabic word for the Roma and Roma-affiliated groups also known under the pejorative term 'Gypsies'. This book uses mostly Ghuraba'-authored works to understand their tribal organization and professional niches as well as providing a glossary of their language Sin. It also examines the urban homes, neighborhoods, and cemeteries that they constructed. Within these isolated communities they developed and nurtured a deep literary culture and astrological tradition, broadening our appreciation of the cultural contributions of medieval minority communities. Remarkably, the Ghuraba' began blockprinting textual amulets by the 10th century, centuries before printing on paper arrived in central Europe. When Roma tribes migrated from Ottoman territories into Bavaria and Bohemia in the 1410s, they may have carried this printing technology into the Holy Roman Empire.
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• Introduction
• State of the art
• Outline
• PART 1: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
• CHAPTER 1: International perspective: the long road to liberation
• 1. India's forgotten children?
• 2. Anatolia, a Romani melting pot
• 3. Early emancipation - and slavery
• 4. Persecution and protective letters of safe conduct
• 5. "Equal citizens of the Soviet Union"
• 6. Resistance during Nazi rule
• 7. 1940s: fragments of early activism
• 8. 1950s: The Paris milieu and legal emancipation
• 9. 1960s: Internationalisation and extra-parliamentary struggle
• 10. 1970s: World Romani Congress, German Sinti and Norwegian Travellers
• 11. 1980s: Demands for historical justice, invoking the Holocaust
• 12. 1990s: The fall of the wall, desegregation, Feminism, European agenda
• 13. 2000s: Minority rights, refugees, the begging issue
• 14. 2010s: Acknowledging antigypsyism, LBTQ, inclusion, pan-European identity building
• Excursus: "The Gypsy clause": Jeanne Marie Czardas victory against the Norwegian state
• CHAPTER 2: Romani politics for historical justice and the fight against antigypsyism
• 1. Historical justice
• 2. Official apologies and recognition
• 3. Restitution, reparations and compensation
• 4. Romani extra-parliamentary interventions against antigypsyism
• Excursus: Memorial to the Nazi genocide of European Romani and Sinti
• CHAPTER 3: DECOLONIZING ROMANI STUDIES
• 1. Scientific Racism, philoziganism, gypsylorism, and antigypsyism
• 2. Table 1. Types of antigypsyism. A tentative model.
• 3. Challenging antigypsyist hegemony through interventions
• 4. Romani intellectuals enter the scene
• 5. The Stockholm Compromise
• 6. Academic populism: The Dr Honoris Scandal
• 7. Concluding remarks
• Excursus: The abolition and aftermath of slavery
• CHAPTER 4: Agency, structures and discourses in Romani liberation
• 1. The agency perspective
• 2. The structural perspective
• 3. The discourse perspective
• Excursus: Djelem Djelem (Gelem Gelem)
• PART 2: THE SWEDISH EXPERIENCE
• CHAPTER 5: Romani emancipation in Sweden: a historical overview.
• 1. Historical background
• 2. Early Romani activism in Sweden
• 3. The significance of Katarina Taikon
• 4. Recognition as a national minority and inclusion policy
• 5. A look ahead
• Excursus: Rosa Taikon -Romani silversmithing and activism
• CHAPTER 6: Momentum for Romani rights in Sweden: 2010-2016?
• 1. White Papers, police registries and the begging debate
• 2. The Swedish example
• 3. Momentum evolves
• 4. Influence of the begging debate
• 5. Two steps forward, one step back
• 6. Excursus: "A Collective Romani Voice"?
• Closing words
• 1. CHAPTER 7: Final reflection
• 2. Afterword by Soraya Post
• 3. Afterword by Hans Caldaras
• 4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• 1. INTERNET RESOURCES
• 2. OTHER SOURCES
• 3. LIST OF IMAGES
• INDEX OF PERSONS.
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Centered on the trajectory of the emancipation of Roma people in Scandinavia, Romani Liberation is a powerful challenge to the stereotype describing Romani as passive and incapable of responsibility and agency. The author also criticizes benevolent but paternalistic attitudes that center on Romani victimhood. The first part of the book offers a comprehensive overview of the chronological phases of Romani emancipation in Sweden and other countries. Underscoring the significance of Roma activism in this process, Jan Selling profiles sixty Romani activists and protagonists, including numerous original photos. The narrative is followed by an analysis of the concepts of historical justice and of the process of decolonizing Romani Studies. Selling highlights the impact of the historical contexts that have enabled or impeded the success of the struggles against discrimination and for equal rights, emphasizing Romani activism as a precondition for liberation. The particular Swedish framework is accentuated by a stimulating preface by the international activist Nicoleta Bitu, and afterwords by two prominent Romani advocates, the politician Soraya Post and the singer, author, and elder Hans Caldaras.
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• Présentation
• Avant-propos
• Avertissement
• Typographie, nomination, traduction
• Souvenirs
• Pt. 1. Apparitions
• 1. Le père Lafleur
• 2. Paéiv, 3 chemin du Parc
• Pt. 2. Apprentissages
• 3. "Me am Manui"
• Quatre-vingts kilomètres à pied
• Brindio
• Piroto
• Du carnet anthropométrique au titre de circulation
• Des cris dans la nuit
• "I xôxene"
• Colères
• "Mur daj 1 Mur daj ! Mur devel !"
• 4. "Rom sam ame !"
• Un homme est mort
• Un enterrement de roi
• La "chine" et la chance
• Jeffrey
• Les bistrots
• Le Multicolore
• "Chez Nicolas"
• Épilogue
• Pt. 3. Savoirs
• Prologue
• Chapitre S. Tsiganologue
• Point de vue général
• Point de vue personnel
• 6. Le savant ivre
• Les échanges matrimoniaux des Kalderd
• Dans la kumpania
• Autour de la kumpania
• Dedans et dehors : l'ethnologue
• La totalité en mouvement
• Diversité
• Mouvement
• Apport de cette vision des "Tsiganes"
• "L'Univers, direct !"
• Définitions
• 7. Définitions
• Images
• Peuple
• Le paradigme scientifique
• Le délire nazi
• De origine Cinganorum
• Le laboratoire gréco-vénitien (Leonardo Piasere)
• La destinée européenne (Henriette Asséo)
• Marginaux
• Gueux", "bœsmes", "cagots", "mercelots"
• Les propositions de Judith Okely
• Déracinements
• Gypsy-Like"
• "Péripatétiques"
• Racismes
• Déracinements et origine
• Gadjé"
• 8. L'histoire, l'ethnologie
• L'histoire
• Quelle histoire instaure le "peuple tsigane" e
• Quelle histoire n'instaure pas le "peuple tsigane" ?
• L'ethnologie
• Rencontre ethnographique
• Galerie de tableaux
• Convergences et différences
• Autres ethnologies ? Autres objets ethnologiques ?
• Totalité versus communautés
• Histoire des "Tsiganes", "Tsiganes" dans l'histoire
• 9. Une ethnologie de la totalité est-elle possible ?
• Établissement théorique de la totalité en termes ethnologiques
• Passer de la communauté à la totalité
• Se détacher, se distinguer
• La totalité, vue par l'ethnologie
• Établissement pratique de la totalité en termes ethnologiques
• Coprésence
• Événements et circonstances
• Solidarités
• Mariages
• Images
• "Gadjé"
• 10. "Tsiganes-gadjé" et l'encyclopédie
• Des "Gitans" peircéens
• La même encyclopédie
• "Tsiganes-gadjé" : un couple ou un corps ?
• Avantages et difficultés de cette conception
• Mise à l'épreuve de cette conception
• Une "impression de familiarité rompue"
• Sémiose et sentiments
• "Familiarité rompue", fraternité perdue
• Affirmation verticale, affirmation horizontale
• Quelques images
• Retour à Modon : redécouvrir la découverte
• "Personnages inconnus", marche du monde et théories de l'Univers
• 11. À la recherche du nom
• Les individus possèdent un nom
• Rom kalderag
• Mànug
• Quelques exemples supplémentaires
• Les communautés possèdent un nom
• Rom kalderd
• Mànd et Voyageurs
• Gitanos flamencos
• La totalité ne possède pas de nom.

"Cet ouvrage retrace la rencontre de Patrick Williams avec les Manouches de la Creuse et les Roms Kalderash de Paris et nous plonge d'emblée dans un véritable roman initiatique dont le héros s'émerveille à chaque découverte. Mais, bien que marié à une Romni Kalderash et devenu chef d'une famille rom, Patrick Williams reste un gadjo et un intellectuel. L'auteur explore ici ce qui n'a jamais cessé de l'intriguer : que les Manouches et les Roms apparaissent à la fois si différents et si semblables. Qu'en est-il dès lors de la totalité tsigane ? Il traite d'une question fondamentale pour tout chercheur en anthropologie sociale : en quoi leur sujet de recherche est source d'enseignements sur la société environnante, voire sur l'humanité en tant que telle ? Œuvre majeure qui dépasse les limites d'une simple ethnographie des Tsiganes, cet ouvrage est le magnifique testament d'un grand anthropologue, rigoureux et libre, souvent poète, qui vient éclairer la vie."--Page 4 of cover.