The Gypsies (The Peoples of Europe)
by Angus Fraser
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Author: Angus FraserEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-03-02
ISBN: 0631196056
Number of pages: 376
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Book Review: Not from Egypt but India.
Summary: 5 Stars
i hadn't realized before reading this book that Gypsies are a people with their own language called Roma,and a distinct culture.I thought previously they were nomads,and i've seen all the stereotypes in movies about them being fortune tellers and all of their other dubious enterprises.This book shows another side,the Gypsies as skilled labor particularly in metallurgy and their exploitation by European powers and businesses as cheap day labor and then cast aside. The change I noted in the book was when Austria under Marie Therese began to try and deal with Gypsies as a people and not as a "social problem".From then on its been progress and then retreat the low point during Hitler's regime.The Gypsies seem to have developed their own methods of survival in a world not altogether friendly to their lifestyle. Their excellence at forgery left me in wonderment,particularly in regard to passports and birth certificates.A person could be a descendent of the Gypsies and not even know it,thinking they were pure "anglo" or whatever.that could throw a wrench in a person's geneological research.This books also uses lots of statistics to trace the Gypsy population and where they reside,they apparently are easily adaptable to their host nation yet maintain their distinctness.yet as time progresses it is even harder to distinguish them from the citizens of the states they reside in.Convenience and the uni-culture dissolves almost all the ethnic lines.
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Since their unexplained appearance in Europe over nine centuries ago, the Gypsies have refused to fall in with conventional settled life. They remain a people whose culture and customs are beset with misunderstanding, and who cling to their distinct identity in the teeth of persistent rejection and pressure to conform. This book describes their history.England Books
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