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Questioning Gypsy Identity
Ethnic Narratives in Britain and America
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2005
Summary
Brian Belton's powerfully original book examines Gypsy lives against the framework of social theories that illustrate how identity arises out of the cultural complexity of individual biographies, families, and communities. Addressing the lack of contextual and social perspectives in the existing literature and the underlying assumption of a consistent Gypsy lineage, he explores the subject of identity to include the broader social context in which the population exists. He argues that Gypsy identity is created and maintained not only by tradition and heredity, but also by social and ideological factors that give rise to the 'ethnic narrative' of Gypsy identity. Growing up in an English Gypsy family, Belton offers a unique 'outsider-insider' perspective to Questioning Gypsy Identity, writing what are essentially stories of people_how they are made, their social force, and what they collectively create.
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Edition
1/2005
Copyright Year
2005
ISBN-Print
978-0-7591-0533-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7591-1496-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
203
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
1 Introduction: A Gypsy Lineage No access Pages 1 - 12
2 The Ethnic Gypsy No access Pages 13 - 38
3 Defining American Gypsies No access Pages 39 - 68
4 Historical Genesis of American Gypsies No access Pages 69 - 92
5 Gypsies in Social Bondage No access Pages 93 - 110
6 Ethnicity as Narrative No access Pages 111 - 134
7 Colonialism and the Gypsies No access Pages 135 - 146
8 Defining Legislation No access Pages 147 - 168
9 Toward a New Paradigm of Gypsy Identity No access Pages 169 - 186
Appendix: The Gypsy Lore Society (GLS) No access Pages 187 - 188
