Gypsy Economy

Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-879-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: The Human Economy

Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. The authors of this volume explore these complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, how economic opportunities are constructed and seized, and how economic success and failure are transformed into attributes of social persons. They explore how, despite — or perhaps because of — their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, shared today with a growing number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies. The ethnographically based chapters share accounts of socially and economically vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brazzabeni, Micol

Cunha, Manuela Ivone

Fotta, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha and Martin Fotta

Chapter 1. Usury among the Slovak Roma: Notes on Relations between Lenders and Borrowers in a Segregated Taboris

Tomáš Hrustic

Chapter 2. New Redistributors in Times of Insecurity: Different Types of Informal Lending in Hungary

Judit Durst

Chapter 3. A Way of Life Flowing in the Interstices: Cigano Horse Dealers in Alentejo, Portugal

Sara Sama Acedo

Chapter 4. ‘Endured Labour’ and ‘Fixing Up’ Money: The Economic Strategies of Roma Migrants in Slovakia and the UK

Jan Grill

Chapter 5. ‘I Go for Iron’: Xoraxané Romá Collecting Scrap Metal in Rome

Marco Solimene

Chapter 6. ‘I’m Good but also Mad’: The Street Economy in a Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest

Gergo Pulay

Chapter 7. The Mechanisms of Independence: Economic Ethics and the Domestic Mode of Production among Gabori Roma in Transylvania

Martin Olivera

Chapter 8. Deceit and Efficacy: Fortune Telling among the Calon Gypsies in São Paulo, Brazil

Florencia Ferrari

Chapter 9. Houses under Construction: Conspicuous Consumption and the Values of Youth among Romanian Cortorari Gypsies

Catalina Tesar

Chapter 10. Exchange, Shame and Strength among Calon of Bahia: A Values-Based Analysis

Martin Fotta

Chapter 11. ‘Give and Don’t Keep Anything!’ Wealth, Hierarchy and Identity among the Gypsies of Two Small Towns in Andalusia, Spain

Nathalie Manrique

Afterword

Keith Hart

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brazzabeni, Micol
Micol Brazzabeni is a Senior Associate Researcher at CRIA-IUL, Lisbon. She is the author of La Scuola di Carta (2008) and a co-editor of Etudes Tsiganes, Special Issue “Emotion and Place” (2012).

Cunha, Manuela Ivone
Manuela Ivone Cunha is a Professor at the University of Minho and a Senior Research Fellow at CRIA-UMinho. She has authored and edited several publications on the social and penal management of social vulnerability.

Fotta, Martin
Martin Fotta is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute for Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is working on a book focusing on money-lending practices of Calon Gypsies of Bahia, Brazil.

Micol Brazzabeni is a Senior Associate Researcher at CRIA-IUL, Lisbon. She is the author of La Scuola di Carta (2008) and a co-editor of Etudes Tsiganes, Special Issue “Emotion and Place” (2012).