UID:
edocfu_9960963303302883
Format:
1 online resource (245 p.)
ISBN:
1-4426-0683-5
,
1-4426-0682-7
Series Statement:
Teaching Culture : UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
Content:
"This book is about a Romani settlement in eastern Slovakia. It is a community that has grown to become one of the largest and most problematic townships of rural Roma in the entire district. The dark-skinned squatters on the margins of Svinia are segregated from the surrounding society by means of physical and social barriers entrenched in local ideology and enforced by rules and conventions reminiscent of apartheid." "David Scheffel offers a detailed ethnographic account of the social, cultural, and historical circumstances that have encouraged and supported inter-ethnic inequality in the region. In the process, he demonstrates the complexity of what is often referred to as Europe's "Gypsy problem" with passion and sensitivity."--BOOK JACKET.
Note:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""one: A FRAGMENTED COMMUNITY""; ""The Setting""; ""The People""; ""The Numbers""; ""Inter-ethnic Relations""; ""Education""; ""Religion""; ""Local Politics""; ""two: INSIDE THE OSADA""; ""The People and their Environment""; ""Making a Living""; ""Sex and Procreation""; ""The Family and the Community""; ""Deviance, Handicaps, and Pathology""; ""Music, Dogs, and Celebrations""; ""Relations with the Outside World""; ""three: ROMANI MARGINALITY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE""; ""The Traditional Pattern""
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""The First Czechoslovak Republic (1918�1938) and World War II""""The Socialist Era (1948�1989)""; ""Post-war Modernization in Svinia""; ""The entrenchment of socialism during the 1950s""; ""Uneven development during the 1960s""; ""Criminalization and segregation in the 1970s""; ""The deepening crisis in the 1980s""; ""The post-communist era""; ""Conclusions: What Went Wrong in Svinia?""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-55111-607-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442606821
