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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"gypsies"”.
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Gypsies in Early Modern Scotland, c.1570-c.1700
… a study of the people labelled ‘Egyptians’, or Gypsies, in early modern Scotland. Between the 1570s and the eighteenth century, Gypsies were sporadically subjected to intense persecution and stigmatisation by Scottish authorities, yet nevertheless maintained their way of life at society’s …
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“No promised land”: history, historiography and the origins of the Gypsies
… regarding the origins and identity of the Gypsies, with particular focus on the contextual and radically contingent nature of all such texts. As such, the primary examination is an historiographical and theoretical consideration of the questions surrounding Gypsy ethnicity and identity, as …
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Blank Pages of the Holocaust: Gypsies in Yugoslavia During World War II
After a general overview of the persecution of Gypsies (Roma) during World War II, this thesis focuses on the situation of Gypsies on the territory of Serbia and Croatia. The two republics are chosen because of their unique structures during the years 1941 to 1945. Both republics had puppet regimes …
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Freedom of Self-Determination in Planning: The Case of Travellers & Gypsies of England
The main question of the thesis was to understand the extent to which the English planning system facilitated freedom of self-determination. The inquiry focused on the Irish Traveller and English Gypsy (T&G) groups because of their current state of freedoms in planning compared with larger society. …
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Gypsies, nomads, pirates and Indians: counter culture, revolution and the movement of movements
This thesis is geared towards assessing the role(s) ('positive', 'negative', etc.) of certain cultural 'codes' in the constitution of oppositional social movements - including (but not limited to) codes associated with “counter culture”. In orienting itself as such, it takes as its starting point …
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'Social exclusion' and resistance: a study of gypsies and the non-governmental sector in Bulgaria 1989-1997
… investigate the survival strategies of Bulgarian Gypsies and their involvement within the non-gover=ental organisation (NGO) sector. It addresses the relevance of these theories to our understanding of social inequality in the light of findings that point not only towards new possibilities for …
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The stereotype caravan: Assessment of stereotypes and ideology levels used to portray Gypsies in two European feature films
… century, cinematography tended to portray Gypsies as an exotic element in romantic settings, avoiding social and political issues like poverty, discrimination and marginalization. The fall of communism marked a change, as more films dared to speak against the dominant ideology. This thesis …
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Gypsy fortune-telling in Houston: the study of a profession
… County, the majority centered in Houston. These Gypsies retain their ethnic identity, speak Romany, maintain a tribal organization, arrange marriages with the customary bride-price and observe other basic traditions. Fortune-telling is the exclusive and sole profession of the female Gypsy and …
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English Gypsy Singing
… context. Finally, it considers the songs that Gypsies perform and emphasises that there is no such thing as Gypsy song, rather, it is the song performance, indeed, the whole activity of singing that is specific to Gypsies. English Gypsy singing provides the opportunity to observe community …
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Zanko, chef tribal: ethnography of a text
… Chalderash," is a classic in literature about Gypsies. The book resulted from a collaboration of a Dominican priest, the Reverend Father Chatard, and a leader of the Chalderash Gypsies of France, Alexander Zanko. "Old Zanko," could neither read nor write but he was a master of the oral art of …
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Changing relationships with the self and others: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of a Traveller and Gypsy life in public care
… disadvantage experienced by Travellers and Gypsies remains under researched, understated, and unacknowledged (Cemlyn et al., 2009). Methodology: Guided by the philosophical assumptions of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), this study represents and constructs the experience of …
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"Misery, alienation and ""The Delinquent Gypsy"" in the art of Isidre Nonell and his Spanish contemporaries"
For centuries Roma people, popularly known as “Gypsies,” an ethnic group without a national territory of its own, faced persecution in Europe which contributed to the transient and “delinquent gypsy” myth, used to justify the harsh social measures against the Roma. Fin-de-siècle Spain presents a …
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A Matter Of Habitus: Character Development In The Literary Productions Of Garcia Lorca
… Spain.</p> <p> The second chapter focuses on the gypsies of Andalusia featured in the poetry compilations Romancero gitano and Cante del poema jondo . Unlike the females in the plays, the gypsies of the poems exhibit strength and independence. They are portrayed as much more mysterious and …
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The “Man Walks Outside Time Now”: Verbal Representations of Photographic Images in the Poems of Larry Levis
… Cemetery, 1966,” “The Assimilation of the Gypsies,” “Sensationalism,” and “Photograph: Migrant Worker, Parlier, California, 1967.”
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Experience of vulnerability from a gypsy/travelling perspective: a phenomemological study.
… 1) consisted of narrative interviews with five Gypsies and Travellers exploring times in their lives when they had felt vulnerable. This identified the following: A feeling of vulnerability created by the potential or actual lack of physical travelling experience. Fear of the future and …
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A space between : contemplating the post-Holocaust subject
… victims. Approximately one and a half million Gypsies, at least 250 000 physically or mentally disabled people, three million Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Social Democrats, Communists, partisans, trade unionists and Polish intelligentsia were among those that fell …
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Discovering the Balkans: British Travellers in Southeastern Europe, 1861--1911
… of Balkan Outsiders---including Morlachs, Gypsies, and Jews---in British travel accounts. Section IV explores the historiography and history of British women travellers in the Balkans, a discussion of women as objects of desire, case studies of important female travel writers (Paulina Irby, …
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And the Word was Song: a novel
… are neglected children; some are street-smart gypsies; some are lovers; all are unknowingly Lily May’s mother substitutes. Through an impending birth, a return to her childhood home and an unexpected discovery of a half-sister, Lily May is able to end her journey and accept her mother for who …
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