Svinia in black & white : Slovak Roma and their neighbours
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Svinia in black & white : Slovak Roma and their neighbours
（Teaching culture : UTP ethnographies for the classroom）
University of Toronto Press, c2010
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Svinia in black and white : Slovak Roma and their neighbours
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Previously published by Broadview Press, 2005
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232) and index
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Description
Roma-or Gypsies as some people still call them-constitute Europe's largest, poorest, and most enigmatic minority. In spite of their centuries-long coexistence with mainstream Europeans, our picture of this people remains rooted in stereotypes and myths that have little in common with contemporary social reality. Full-fledged citizens of the European Union, and ostensibly protected by the world's most progressive human rights legislation, many Roma live under conditions that challenge our notions of Europe, modernity, and pluralism. This book is about a Romani settlement in eastern Slovakia. It is a community that has grown to become one of the largest and most problematic townships of rural Roma in the entire district. The dark-skinned squatters on the margins of Svinia are segregated from the surrounding society by means of physical and social barriers entrenched in local ideology and enforced by rules and conventions reminiscent of apartheid. David Scheffel offers a detailed ethnographic account of the social, cultural, and historical circumstances that have encouraged and supported inter-ethnic inequality in the region.
In the process, he demonstrates the complexity of what is often referred to as Europe's "Gypsy problem" with passion and sensitivity.
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Fragmented Community The Setting The People The Numbers Inter-ethnic Relations Education Religion Local Politics 2. Inside the Osada The Roma and their Environment Making a Living Sex and Procreation The Family and the Community Deviance, Handicaps, and Pathology Music, Dogs, and Celebrations Relations with the Outside World 3. Romani Marginality in Historical Perspective The Traditional Pattern The First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938) and World War II The Socialist Era (1948-1989) Post-war Modernization in Svinia The entrenchment of socialism during the 1950s Uneven development during the 1960s Criminalization and segregation in the 1970s The deepening crisis in the 1980s The post-communist era Conclusions: What Went Wrong in Svinia? Notes Bibliography Index
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