Gypsies
Subtitle: The Hidden Americans
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: July 1986
Place of publication: Prospect Heights, Ill.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780881332353
Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Anthropology, Cultural; California; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Ethnic Sociology; Ethnic Studies; Ethnic groups; Gypsies; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
First sentence: Approximately every twenty years someone predicts that the Gypsies are a dying culture and laments that the old ways have gone and that the future is bleak for the Gypsy.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The kumpania -- Economic relations -- Leadership and conflict -- The relationship terminology -- The Vitsa and Natsia -- Marriage -- Pollution, boundaries, and beliefs -- Conclusions -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Notes -- Glossary.