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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828164003321

Titolo

Gypsy economy : Romani livelihoods and notions of worth in the 21st century / / editors, Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha, Martin Fotta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016

ISBN

1-78238-886-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 263 pages) : illustrations

Collana

The human economy ; ; volume 3

Disciplina

330.940089/91497

Soggetti

Romanies - Europe - Economic conditions - 21st century

Romanies - Europe - Social conditions - 21st century

Community life - Europe

Values - Social aspects - Europe

Capitalism - Social aspects - Europe

Marginality, Social - Economic aspects - Europe

Europe Ethnic relations

Europe Economic conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Gypsy economy -- Usury among the Slovak Roma: notes on relations between lenders and borrowers in a segregated Taboris -- New redistributors in times of insecurity: different types of informal lending in Hungary -- A way of life flowing in the interstices: Cigano horse dealers in Alentejo, Portugal -- "Endured labour" and "Fixing up" money: the economic strategies of Roma migrants in Slovakia nd the UK -- "I go for iron": Xoraxané Romá collecting scrap metal in Rome -- "I'm good but also mad": the street economy in a poor neighbourhood of Bucharest -- The mechanisms of independence: economic ethics and the domestic mode of production among Gabori Roma in Transylvania -- Deceit and efficacy: fortune telling among the Calon Gypsies in São Paulo, Brazil -- Houses under construction: conspicuous consumption and the values of youth among Romanian Cortorari Gypsies -- Exchange, shame and strength among Calon of Bahia: a values-based analysis -- "Give and don't keep anything!": wealth, hierarchy and



identity among the Gypsies of two small towns in Andalusia, Spain.

Sommario/riassunto

"Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. Authors 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 vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity"--Provided by publisher.