Machine derived contents note: 1. Historical categories and representations -- 2. Modern misrepresentations -- 3. Methods of approach -- 4. Economic niche -- 5. Self-ascription -- 6. Symbolic boundaries -- 7. Gorgio planning -- 8. Travelling -- 9. The trailer unit, spouses and children -- 10. Group relations and personal relatives -- 11. Gypsy women -- 12. Ghosts and Gorgios -- Concluding remarks -- Extract from The Scholar Gypsy
Summary
In this book Judith Okely challenges popular accounts of Gypsies which suggest that they were once isolated communities, enjoying an autonomous culture and economy now largely eroded by the processes of industrialisation and western capitalism
