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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 263 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 330.940089/91497
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Ethnic relations; Europe Economic conditions 21st century
• Persona (resp. second.): BrazzabeniMicol; CunhaManuela Ivone Pereira da; FottaMartin
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gypsy economy
• ISBN: 1-78238-886-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828164003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Human economy ; ; 3.