| The Time of the Gypsies Revised Edition Contributor(s): Stewart, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813331994 ISBN-13: 9780813331997 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: Until 1989 the official Communist policy in eastern Europe was to absorb Gypsies into the "ruling" working class. However, most Gypsies resisted assimilation. The core of this book, based on 18 months' observation of daily life in a Gypsy camp, describes the cultivation, celebration and reinvention of cultural difference and diversity by a people deemed by some as too stupid and uncivilized to have a "culture". A part of the Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination series. Bibliography. Photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Eastern Europe - General |
| Dewey: 305.891 |
| LCCN: 97009001 |
| Lexile Measure: 1460 |
| Series: Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.12" W x 9.02" (1.1 lbs) 324 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1980's - Chronological Period - 1990's - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |