[PDF] American Gypsies eBook

Author : Anne Sutherland
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 1986-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478610417

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The Gypsies portrayed in this book are the Vlax-speaking Rom, the largest group of Gypsies in the United States, numbering 500,000. Not officially recognized as a minority in the U.S. until 1972, Gypsies have led an almost entirely invisible existence here. Now in this fascinating workthe first complete account of American GypsiesSutherland has produced an in-depth look at the full range of everyday social life among the Rom. Separate, elusive, complex, and unique among the people of the world, Gypsies have preserved their traditional way of life. How have they avoided assimilation? What keeps them apart? How are they organized, and what do they believe? These and other important questions about these hidden Americans are addressed in Sutherlands contemporary study.

Author : Anne H. Sutherland
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478633794

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America has always been a land of fascinating cultural diversity. From the extremely wide range of cultural groups on the American scene today, Gypsies, or Roma, are among the most extraordinarily elusive and complex. For more than forty-five years, social scientist Anne Sutherland has researched and objectively written about the American Roma worldview. She honed traditional research methods to study the Roma, who normally obscure the truth about themselves to outsiders, dispelling centuries of misinterpretation, bias, and romanticism that have led to discrimination. In this latest work, Roma: Modern American Gypsies, she succinctly portrays their twenty-first-century lives and identifies how their realities have been shaped by global processes and agents of power. Throughout complex stages of change and adaptation, Sutherland concludes, Gypsies have managed to retain, not lose, their identity. Ideal for classes in introductory sociology and cultural anthropology, Roma is also an excellent supplement in courses on ethnicity, immigration, and American culture since Gypsy culture also vividly illustrates the strength of ethnic boundaries, the channeling of interethnic relations, subcultural differentiation, and adaptation.

Author : Oksana Marafioti
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374104077

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Recounts the author's early experiences as a fifteen-year-old Gypsy emigrating with her family from the Soviet Union to the United States.

Author : Leland Davis
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Kayaking
ISBN : 9780976605881

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With detailed driving directions, shuttle icons, stream flow beta, 43 scale maps, and colour photos, this book offers you what you need to plan an American paddling vacation. It is your ticket to travel in 9 of the continent's hottest paddling destination regions, with information on the best playspots, creeks, and rivers from class III to V+.

Author : Isabel Fonseca
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0307761045

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A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. Fabled, feared, romanticized, and reviled, the Gypsies—or Roma—are among the least understood people on earth. Their culture remains largely obscure, but in Isabel Fonseca they have found an eloquent witness. In Bury Me Standing, alongside unforgettable portraits of individuals—the poet, the politician, the child prostitute—Fonseca offers sharp insights into the humor, language, wisdom, and taboos of the Roma. She traces their exodus out of India 1,000 years ago and their astonishing history of persecution: enslaved by the princes of medieval Romania; massacred by the Nazis; forcibly assimilated by the communist regimes; evicted from their settlements in Eastern Europe, and most recently, in Western Europe as well. Whether as handy scapegoats or figments of the romantic imagination, the Gypsies have always been with us—but never before have they been brought so vividly to life. Includes fifty black and white photos.

Author : Albert Thomas 1844-1911 Sinclair
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781360216973

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Author : Albert Thomas Sinclair
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781462290659

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Hardcover reprint of the original 1917 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Sinclair, Albert Thomas. American Gypsies. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Sinclair, Albert Thomas. American Gypsies, . New York The New York Public Library, 1917. Subject: Romanies