Gypsy World

The Silence of the Living and the Voices of the Dead

By: Patrick Williams, Catherine Tihanyi (Translator)

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Paperback | 15 June 2003 | Edition Number 1

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For many of us, one of the most important ways of coping with the death of a close relative is talking about them, telling all who will listen what they meant to us. Yet the Gypsies of central France, the Manus, not only do not speak of their dead, they burn or discard the deceased's belongings, refrain from eating the dead person's favorite foods, and avoid camping in the place where they died.

In Gypsy World, Patrick Williams argues that these customs are at the center of how Manus see the world and their place in it. The Manus inhabit a world created by the "Gadzos" (non-Gypsies), who frequently limit or even prohibit Manus movements within it. To claim this world for themselves, the Manus employ a principle of cosmological subtraction: just as the dead seem to be absent from Manus society, argues Williams, so too do the Manus absent themselves from Gadzo society-and in so doing they assert and preserve their own separate culture and identity.

Anyone interested in Gypsies, death rituals, or the formation of culture will enjoy this fascinating and sensitive ethnography.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Social Discrimination & Inequality Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Customs & Traditions Social Theory Anthropology Sociology & Death & Dying Miscellaneous Items Family & Health

List of Photographs
Translator's Acknowledgments
Pre-text
Mare Mule: The Dead among the Living
Civilizing the World
The Basket Makers Have Become Scrap-Iron Dealers
Commmentary
Notes
References
Index
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