ABSTRACT

HIS IS A STUDY OF HOW some of the most marginal and exploited people that exist can imagine themselves to be princes of the world.During the past two hundred years the Gypsies of Eastern Europe have faced near enslavement by land owners, the physical and moral onslaught of the Nazi holocaust, the fundamental challenge to their central values from the Communist state, and the violent discrimination and dislocation caused by the return to capitalism. One would have thought that the challenge would be too great, that they would have suffered cultural

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction: The Lowest of the Low

part One|80 pages

The Gypsy Way

chapter 2|10 pages

Gypsy Work

chapter 3|23 pages

A Place of Their Own

chapter 4|23 pages

“We Are All Brothers Here”

chapter 5|22 pages

Breaking Out

part Two|44 pages

Beyond the Ghetto

chapter 6|15 pages

Making Workers Out of Gypsies

chapter 7|22 pages

Gaźos, Peasants, Communists, and Gypsies

chapter 8|5 pages

Staying Gypsy in a World of Gaźos

part Three|108 pages

The Reinvention of the World

chapter 9|23 pages

Sons of the Market

chapter 10|17 pages

A Passion for Dealing

chapter 11|23 pages

Brothers in Song

chapter 12|28 pages

The Shame of the Body