Author: Henry WOODCOCK (Methodist Minister.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 204
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The Gipsies; Being a Brief Account of Their History, Origin, Capabilities, Manners and Customs; with Suggestions for the Reformation and Conversion of the English Gipsies
Author: Henry WOODCOCK (Methodist Minister.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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The Gipsies
Author: Henry WoodcockPublisher:
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Category : Conversion
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Gypsies
Author: David CressyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191080519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? Can they even be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all? Gypsies have frequently been vilified, and not much less frequently romanticized, by the settled population over the centuries. Social historian David Cressy now attempts to disentangle the myth from the reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of English history. In this, the first comprehensive historical study of the doings and dealings of Gypsies in England, he draws on original archival research, and a wide range of reading, to trace the many moments when Gypsy lives became entangled with those of villagers and townsfolk, religious and secular authorities, and social and moral reformers. Crucially, it is a story not just of the Gypsy community and its peculiarities, but also of England's treatment of that community, from draconian Elizabethan statutes, through various degrees of toleration and fascination, right up to the tabloid newspaper campaigns against Gypsy and Traveller encampments of more recent years.
The Hero of the Humber
Author: Henry WoodcockGypsy-Travellers in Nineteenth-Century Society
Author: David MayallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521323970
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book critically examines the nature and source of Gypsy stereotypes.
A Gypsy Bibliography
Author: George Fraser BlackPublisher:
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Category : Gypsies
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Faith and Revivalism in a Nordic Romani Community
Author: David ThurfjellPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857733184
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
A Pentecostal revival is sweeping the Romani communities of Europe. The dominant religious orientation of European Roma, Pentecostalism has become one of the major factors behind Romani social development, in the wake of the discrimination, marginalisation, and growing anti-ziganist sentiments of the latest decades. Through this form of charismatic Protestant Christianity, Roma have overcome social problems and internal conflicts as well as battle against the hostility and exclusion of the 'macro gajo' (non-Roma) society. Based on interviews and field work, this original ethnographic study offers a unique presentation and analysis of the Pentecostal revival in one of Europe's many Romani communities - the Kaale Roma of Finland and Sweden. Through individual life stories, historical exposes, sociological interpretation, and ritual and discourse analysis, Thurfjell provides a vivid, accurate portrait of the multifaceted and complex situation of contemporary Roma. Despite the efforts of the Nordic welfare state over the past decades to counteract poverty, and to integrate their Romani communities into society, these groups are persistently problematic. Inspired by postcolonial theory, Thurfjell's study addresses the failure of the integration politics of the Roma; he highlights the discursive pressure the hegemonial society places on outsiders as it reaches out to help them. Romani individuals, it is argued, are caught in a deadlock between the pressure to assimilate themselves into the majority society, and that of their community, to remain Romani. This study of the Pentecostal movement is of interest to anyone who seeks to understand the religious, historical, social and discursive processes that underlie the complex and difficult situation of European Roma today.
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdIn Search of the True Gypsy
Author: Wim WillemsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317791908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
It has only been recognised tardily and with reluctance that during the Second World War hundreds of thousands of itinerants met the same horrendous fate as Jews and other victims of Nazism. Gypsies appear to appeal to the imagination simply as social outcasts and scapegoats or, in a flattering but no more illuminating light, as romantic outsiders. In this study, contemporary notions about Gypsies are traced back as far as possible to their roots, in an attempt to lay bare why stigmatisation of gypsies, or rather groups labelled as such, has continuned from the distant past even to today.
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