Gypsies and Other Itinerant Groups

A Socio-Historical Approach

By: Anne-Marie Cottaar, Wim Willems, Leo Lucassen

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Hardcover | 11 March 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Who are Gypsies and Travellers? Why have they been marginalized, stigmatized and persecuted in the past as well as in the present? What is their place in society and in the history of Europe? The authors of this book offer new and refreshing answers to these old questions. They argue that most scholars (and popular authors) have been too deeply influenced by a disputable frame of ethnological thinking. Whereas social construction, categorization and ethnic or racially motivated exclusion have also been of importance for the coming about of various ethnic groups amongst the Travellers. The authors urge the necessity for putting these kind of studies into a general historical and sociological frame. By doing so, links can be made to much wider processes of nationalism, state-formation, migration and ethnicity. Their analyses of the social and economic history of Gypsies and other itinerant groups also offer new insights in their functioning on the labour market.

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'Collections of essays often too broadly or too narrowly circumscribe their topic to be useful for comparative purposes, but this collection works well.' - British Bulletin of Publications

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Non-Fiction Travel & Holidays Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Social Discrimination & Inequality Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Social Groups Ethnic Studies Sociology Sociology & Work & Labour

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Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Images and Representations
Ethnicity as a Death-Trap: the History of Gypsy Studies	p. 17
The Church of Knowledge: Representation of Gypsies in Encyclopaedias	p. 35
Stigmatization and Government Policies
Eternal Vagrants? State Formation, Migration and Travelling Groups in Western Europe, 1350-1914	p. 55
'Harmful Tramps': Police Professionalization and Gypsies in Germany, 1700-1945	p. 74
A Silent War: Foreign Gypsies and the Dutch Government Policy, 1969-89	p. 94
The Making of a Minority: the Case of Dutch Travellers	p. 114
Socio-Economic Functioning
A Blind Spot: Migratory and Travelling Groups in Western European Historiography	p. 135
The Clink of the Hammer was Heard from Daybreak till Dawn: Gypsy Occupations in Western Europe (Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries)	p. 153
Dutch Travellers: Dwellings, Origins and Occupations	p. 174
Notes	p. 190
Bibliography	p. 206
Index	p. 220
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