{"product_id":"exploring-gypsiness-power-exchange-and-interdependence-in-a-transylvanian-village-9781845455026","title":"Exploring Gypsiness: Power, Exchange and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tRomania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them. This book focuses on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in Transylvania and explores their social life and cosmology. Because Rom Gypsies are dependent on and define themselves in relation to the surrounding non-Gypsy populations, it is important to understand their day-to-day interactions with these neighbors, primarily peasants to whom they relate through extended barter. The author comes to the conclusion that, although economically and politically marginal, Rom Gypsies are central to Romanian collective identity in that they offer desirable and repulsive counter images, incorporating the uncivilized, immoral and destructive \"other\". This interdependence creates tensions but it also allows for some degree of cultural and political autonomy for the Roma within Romanian society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[The author] successfully unpacks the grounds for exclusion and intermingling between ethnic identities and groups, revealing the dimensions of agency within the apparently fixed and unassailable ‘Roma’ category of being. The book facilitates critical thinking about the dense trilogy of identity, marginality, and poverty which work with Rom evokes.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJRAI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"...a valuable book that makes a significant contribution to the discussion of interethnic relations in Romania and beyond...and addresses a multitude of intriguing questions in a competent mannter.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Anthropos\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tTranscriptions, Pronunciations and Vocabulary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I THE ROM WORLD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Roma in the Romanian Figuration\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Cultivating and Harvesting Social Environment\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Gender, Shame and Honour\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Amari Familia: Belonging Together\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Competing for Equality\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Rom Leadership: Joska Bulibasa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Romanimo: Towards a Rom Cosmology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II ROMA AS VILLAGERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Village Life, Peasant Cosmology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Exchange and Power\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e The Tigan as Signifier\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042977579351,"sku":"9781845455026","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845455026.jpg?v=1750956488","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exploring-gypsiness-power-exchange-and-interdependence-in-a-transylvanian-village-9781845455026","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}