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English Gypsies
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ethnic minority Britain
ethnicity
Gypsy
Gypsy Ethnicity
Gypsy Identity
Gypsy Lorists
Gypsy Political
Gypsy Studies
Heinrich Grellmann
historical anthropology England
indian
Itinerant Population
judith
Judith Okely
Legitimate Ethnic Group
Leiden University
Leo Lucassen
lore
lorists
Moveable Dwellings
Nicolae Gheorghe
Nomadic Population
okely
Open Road
origins
Philological Enquiry
population
racial classification history
Racial Gypsy
Romani identity evolution research
Romani Language
Romani studies
Romany Language
Romany Rye
social identity construction
society
studies
True Gypsy
vagrancy and marginalisation
Wesleyan Methodist Magazine
Product details
- ISBN 9781857289602
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Oct 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Gypsies have lived in England since the early sixteenth century, yet considerable confusion and disagreement remain over the precise identity of the group. The question 'Who are the Gypsies?' is still asked and the debates about the positioning and permanence of the boundary between Gypsy and non-Gypsy are contested as fiercely today as at any time before.
This study locates these debates in their historical perspective, tracing the origins and reproduction of the various ways of defining and representing the Gypsy from the early sixteenth century to the present day. Starting with a consideration of the early modern description of Gypsies as Egyptians, land pirates and vagabonds, the volume goes on to examine the racial classification of the nineteenth century and the emergence of the ethnic Gypsy in the twentieth century. The book closes with an exploration of the long-lasting image of the group as vagrant and parasitic nuisances which spans the whole period from 1500 to 2000.
