Publication

2015 - Berghahn Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

65,750 words, Guess

Page Count

263 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC330.940089/91497
  • LCCDX145 .G974 2015

Description

"Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. Authors explore these complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, how economic opportunities are constructed and seized, and how economic success and failure are transformed into attributes of social persons. They explore how, despite -- or perhaps because of -- their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, shared today with a growing number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies. The ethnographically based chapters share accounts of socially and vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The human economy

Other Editions

  • Gypsy economyBerghahn Books2015

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