| Description |
xi, 258 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The role of the Romanies : Images and counter-images / Susan Tebbutt and Nicholas Saul -- John Sampson and Romani studies in Liverpool / Anthony Sampson -- The Gypsy collections at Liverpool / Katharine Hooper -- Belated travelling theory, contemporary wild praxis : a Romani perspective on the practical politics of the Open End / Ken Lee -- The role of language in mystifying and demystifying Gypsy identity / Yaron Matras -- The origins of anit-Gypsyism : the outsiders' view of Romanies in Western Europe in the Fifteenth Century / Donald Kenrick -- The concoctors : creating fake Romani culture / Ian Hancock -- Modernity, culture and "Gypsies" : is there a meta-scientific method for understanding the representation of "Gypsies"? And do the Dutch really exist? / Thomas Acton -- Half a Gypsy : the case of Ezra Jennings in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone (1868) Nicholas Saul -- Understanding the "Other"? : Communication, history and narration in Margriet de Moor's Hertog van Egypte (1996) / Claudia Breger -- From survival to subversion : strategies of self-representation in selected works by Mariella Mehr / Carmel Finnan -- / Disproportional representation : Romanies and European art / Susan Tebbutt -- A photographer and his "victims" 1934-1964 : reconstructing a shared experience of the Romani Holocaust / Eve Rosenhaft -- Ritual of memory in constructing a modern identity of Eastern European Romanies / Slawomir Kapralski -- "Severity has often enraged but never subdued a gypsy" : the history and making of European Romani stereotypes / Colin Clark |
| Analysis |
Gypsies |
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European culture |
| Notes |
"This book emerges from a conference held in autumn 2000 on 'The role of the Romanies: images and counter-images of "Gypsies/Romanies in European cultures" at the University of Liverpool" - Preface |
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Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Romanies -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.
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Romanies -- Europe.
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Romanies -- Europe -- Social life and customs.
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Romanies in popular culture -- Europe.
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Romanies -- Europe -- Public opinion.
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Romanies -- Europe -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Tebbutt, Susan.
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Saul, Nicholas.
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| ISBN |
0853236798 cased |
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0853236895 paperback |
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