Screen LibraryGypsy economy : Romani livelihoods and notions of worth in the 21st century /
"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 fai...
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| Published: |
Berghahn Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The human economy ;
volume 3 |
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| Summary: |
"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-cr |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781782388791 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 1782388796 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | DX145 |
| CLC: | F15 |
| Call Number: | F15/G997 |
| Contents: |
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 c |