CiNii Books - Fire in the dark : telling Gypsiness in North East England

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- Buckler, Sarah

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Fire in the dark : telling Gypsiness in North East England

Sarah Buckler

（Studies in public and applied anthropology, v. 3）

Berghahn Books, 2011, c2007

: pbk

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University of Tokyo, Komaba Library駒場図

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"First paperback edition published in 2011"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Anthropologists who are employed to change the worlds they are researching find themselves in a potentially contradictory position. Combining the various roles and expectations involved in working with Gypsies and local government at the same time as conducting anthropological research, provides the overall perspective of this study. It is an unusual and effective balance of insightful ethnography and anthropological theory with the perspective of someone employed to carry out applied work. An effective and creative use of metaphor structures the entire work and allows complex ideas to be conveyed in an accessible way. Drawing upon traditional anthropological approaches such as kinship and story telling and engaging with the works of major social theorists such as Weber, Bourdieu and Foucault as well as the work of contemporary anthropologists, this work demonstrates the use of anthropology in understanding changing situations and in deciding how best to manage such situations.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Book Structure Applying Anthropology PART I: THE WASTELAND Chapter 1. Defining the Field: People and Practice in an Indeterminate Place Boundaries and Meeting Places Boundaries and Gypsy Identity Schematic Understandings Framing Interactions Becoming a Person - Embodiedness Speaking and the Embodiment of Language Summation Chapter 2. Reaching an Understanding - Methods and Analysis Boundaries and the Research Process People, Culture and Organizations Ethnography at Home The Search for the Subject Matter Self and Other - More Assumed Boundaries Engagement in the Field Genealogies and Kinship Charts Tales of Everyday Life and Conflicting Moral Frames The Significance of Stories The Ethics of Representation Chapter 3. The Past and Present Making of Teesside: Building a Place in the World, Finding a Place Amongst People Arriving Gypsies on Teesside The Sites A Question of Culture Putting Gypsies in Their Place PART II: THE FIRE Chapter 4. Stories and Teaching Gypsiness An Introduction The Intersubjective Process of Socialisation Another Introduction Learning to Speak - Social Aesthetics and the Context of Socialisation Social Aesthetics and Socialisation - the Role of Stories Stories and Teaching Gypsy Children Telling Stories and Enacting Stories The Real World of Stories vs. the Fictional World of Books Stories - Real Life or Fiction? Stories and Teaching Morality 'Fictional' vs. 'Real-Life' Moralities Summary Chapter 5. Stories and the Telling of Family Parenting and Teaching How to Be Family as a Collection of Stories A Sense of One's Beginnings Repeated Story Themes What's in a Name? Chapter 6. Home is Where the Heart Is Homing In Telling Family Together Individual and Family - the Interplay of 'I' and 'We' A Variety of Possible Stories Where in the World? Conclusion Chapter 7. The Negotiation of Moral Ambivalence What's In and What's Out - or Who Belongs and Who Doesn't? Making a Place in the World - Rhetoric and Meaning Rhetoric, Symbols and Values - Introducing the Inchoate Families Real and Imagined - the Idea of a Moral Community Rhetoric and the Creation of Social Space Part II: Summary PART III: THE DARK Part III: Introduction Chapter 8. The Mediated Moral Imagination The Character of the Gypsy An Unfolding Story The Story Continues Telling the Story 'Our' Way - the Various Faces of 'We' and 'They' Discussion Chapter 9. A Meeting of Minds? Introducing the Characters Conflicts and Contradictions - the Meeting's Internal Processes Balancing Individuals and Institutions - How Groups are Made and Remade Adopting Roles, Assuming Responsibilities and Assessing Behaviour Making a Metaphorical Wasteland Discussion Chapter 10. Managing Multiple Perspectives Finding a Point of View - Placing People in a Cultural Landscape Enacting and Re-enacting Storylines Shifting Perspectives and Enacting Situations Conclusions Conclusions Appendix 1. Kinship Charts Appendix 2. Newspaper Cuttings Bibliography

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