The Gypsy is traditionally portrayed as a black-eyed, tousle-haired savage from a distant land who makes a living by deceit and parasitism on the host society. This book critically examines the nature and source of such stereotypes, locating the image of the wild but often romantic Romany in various works of fiction and the writings of lorists and gypsiologists, fascinated by the need to classify, categorize and describe. The author reveals the inadequacies of the racial construct, and replaces it with a definition that allows for the coming together and coexistence of indigenous itinerants and the original, foreign immigrants. A picture emerges of a distinctive group living on the fringes of industrialized society and economy, but necessarily involved in a close economic relationship with the settled community.
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."..an intelligent and important book which improves our understanding of a minority culture as it encountered a new code of intolerance from a "host" society." Canadian Journal of History
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The Gypsy is traditionally portrayed as a black-eyed, tousle-haired savage from a distant land who makes a living by deceit and parasitism on the host society. This book critically examines the nature and source of such stereotypes, locating the image of the wild but often romantic Romany in various works of fiction and the writings of lorists and gypsiologists.
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Gypsy-travellers occupy a unique position in sedentary-based societies by virtue of their physical and ideological distance from the main features and trends of the host structures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
constabulary force, moveable dwellings, reforming mission, travelling population, travelling way, racial separateness, legislative attack, local authority officials, settled society, nomadic population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
George Smith of Coalville, Kirk Yetholm, Southampton Committee, Romany Gypsy, Moveable Dwellings Bill, Epping Forest, Select Committee, Notting Hill, Gypsy Lore Society, Home Secretary, Vagrancy Act, Chief Constable, Surrey Council, John Hoyland, Local Government Board, Home Office, Captain Sant, House of Commons, South Shore, Lordship Lane, Latimer Road, James Crabb, British Gypsies, Earl Spencer, Metropolitan Police Browse Sample Pages:
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Gypsy-travellers occupy a unique position in sedentary-based societies by virtue of their physical and ideological distance from the main features and trends of the host structures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
constabulary force, moveable dwellings, reforming mission, travelling population, travelling way, racial separateness, legislative attack, local authority officials, settled society, nomadic population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
George Smith of Coalville, Kirk Yetholm, Southampton Committee, Romany Gypsy, Moveable Dwellings Bill, Epping Forest, Select Committee, Notting Hill, Gypsy Lore Society, Home Secretary, Vagrancy Act, Chief Constable, Surrey Council, John Hoyland, Local Government Board, Home Office, Captain Sant, House of Commons, South Shore, Lordship Lane, Latimer Road, James Crabb, British Gypsies, Earl Spencer, Metropolitan Police Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- The Gypsies (The Peoples of Europe) by Angus Fraser on page 199, page 255, and Back Matter
- Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust by William I. Brustein on page 350, and Back Matter
- Herstellung und Reproduktion sozialer Grenzen: Roma in einer westdeutschen Großstadt (Forschung Gesellschaft) (German Edition) by Ute Koch in Back Matter
- The Foreign Woman in British Literature: Exotics, Aliens, and Outsiders (Contributions in Women's Studies) by Marilyn D. Button on page 158
- Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity by Laura Doyle in Back Matter
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