Article: Gypsy World: The Silence of the Living and the Voices of the Dead.(Book review)

WILLIAMS, PATRICK (TRANS. CATHERINE TIHANYI). Gypsy world: the silence of the living and the voices of the dead. xi, 104 pp., plates, bibliogr. London, Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2003. [pounds sterling]9.50 (paper)

Wherever they live, the Gypsies are faced with the problem of appropriating time and space that have already been structured and arranged by the non-Gypsies, the Gadzo. In their effort to create their own world, different Gypsy groups resort to different tactics. For example, Hungarian Roma tend to fill up gaps around them with friendly relatives and with loud talk in the Romanes language. In contrast, the specific French Manus group from the Massif ...

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