Romani Culture and Gypsy Identity

Romani Culture and Gypsy Identity
Author: Thomas Alan Acton
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1997
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780900458767

Romany culture is perhaps the most Indo-European of all. The ancestors of the Gypsies left India around 1000 years ago and mixed with every culture on the way to produce a variety of Romany dialects and well-known cultural achievements from Hungarian Gypsy music to the English Gypsy caravan. Such images somehow co-exist, however, with continuous persecution.

A History of The Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia

A History of The Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia
Author: D. Crowe
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137105968

In this fully updated edition with a new foreword by Andre Liebich, David M. Crowe provides an overview of the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or Roma, from their entrance into the region in the Middle Ages up until the present, drawing from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources.

A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia

A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia
Author: D. Crowe
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1349606715

David Crowe draws from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources to explore the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or Roma, from their entrance into the region in the Middle Ages until the present.

The Romani Gypsies

The Romani Gypsies
Author: Yaron Matras
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015-01-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 067436838X

Who are the Romani people? -- Romani society -- Customs and traditions -- The Romani language -- The Roms among the nations -- Between romanticism and racism -- A modern Romani identity -- Appendix: The mosaic of Romani groups.

Dictionary of Gypsy Life and Lore

Dictionary of Gypsy Life and Lore
Author: Harry E. Wedeck
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 661
Release: 2015-09-08
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1504022742

Through the centuries, Gypsies all over the world have been misunderstood, maligned, rejected. Outcasts of the countries in which they live, they have wandered for centuries over the face of the earth. They have no homeland, no political unity, no recognition among nations. They have been alone, sundered, shunned, persecuted and banished. Until about a century ago, their original home had been a matter of dispute. Their language had been a source of puzzlement. Yet their conduct and their traditions, their feeling for music, dance and song, have all been acclaimed. Still they were not accepted and were forced to remain apart from conventional society. Here is their epic history, with its folktales and beliefs, its rites and customs. Here is the vast treasury of the Gypsies.

Danger! Educated Gypsy

Danger! Educated Gypsy
Author: Ian Hancock
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781902806990

This is a timely collection of Ian Hancock's selected writings. His impact upon Romani Studies has been truly remarkable, both in terms of his contributions to linguistics and Gypsy historiography and in his re-assessment of Romani identity within the Western cultural fabric

Gypsies

Gypsies
Author: Diane Tong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2015-01-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135636303

This book of interdisciplinary readings on Gypsies is sensitive to the Romani point of view and avoids exoticizing or patronizing the Gypsies and their culture. Recurrent themes in the readings include: the historical oppression of the Gypsies including contemporary xenophobia and violence; the nonstatic, heterogeneous nature of Gypsy cultures; the persistence of racist stereotypes; and personal and institutional Gypsy/non-Gypsy relationships. Nearly all of the classic essays updated for this volume tell stories of the persistance of the Roma in the face of savage atrocities and appalling living conditions.

Buckland's Book of Gypsy Magic

Buckland's Book of Gypsy Magic
Author: Raymond Buckland
Publisher: Weiser Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-05-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1609251652

Weaving together lore, legend, and belief Buckland’s Book of Gypsy Magic revives the beliefs, spell-craft, and healing wisdom of the Romany people. From hexes and healings to tea leaves and tarot, the circle of the family and the rituals of death, this enchanted volume will delight witches, folklorists, and history lovers alike. Learn the shuvani’s secrets for love, craft a talisman for vitality, and cast the Gypsy Start tarot spread. Join Buckland around the campfire, to hear stories of werewolves and vampires, mistaken identity, persecution, and perseverance. Learn how the gypsy people have for centuries used wisdom and enchantments to ensure good health, happy families, and heart’s desire. Includes a glossary of Romany words.

Megalith

Megalith
Author: Aylmer von Fleischer
Publisher: Aylmer von Fleischer
Total Pages: 118
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN:

On the plains of Wiltshire in England lie the remains of ancient giant stones. Exactly which people built these stones remains the eternal question. Just like the pyramids of Egypt its origins remain shrouded in mystery. Various theories have been put forward as to the race or otherwise of these builders, but still, much uncertainty remains. The evidence is simply overwhelming that the earliest inhabitants of Britain and Ireland were Blacks. Mythological, archeological, linguistic and other sources have substantiated this remarkable fact. Candid authorities like the British Egyptologists Gerald Massey and Albert Churchward, the Scottish historian David Mac Ritchie, and the British antiquarian Godfrey Higgins, have done exhaustive research and brought many facts to our knowledge. Tacitus, Pliny, Claudian and other writers have described the Blacks they encountered in the British Isles as "Black as Ethiopians," "Cum Nigris Gentibus," "nimble-footed blackamoors," and so on. This book reveals much about the Black presence in the early British Isles, including the "mysterious" builders of Stonehenge. We learn about the Black Fomorians, Partholonians, Nemedians, Firbolgs, Tuatha De Danann, Black Danes, Black Douglases, the giants or Cyclopes and so on. We also learn about the Black serpent-worshiping Druids who built serpentine monuments like those at Avebury and Carnac, as well as the builders of the Round Towers of Ireland. The fact remains, that Blacks have played a very important role in the early history, traditions, religion and so on, of early Britain and elsewhere than is generally known and acknowledged. This is a must-read book.