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Romani Culture and Gypsy Identity

Editor: Thomas Acton, Gary Mundy

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About the book

The ancestors of the Gypsies left India around 1,000 years ago and mixed with every culture on the way to produce a rich variety of Romani dialects and cultural achievements from Hungarian Gypsy music to the English Gypsy caravan.

Notwithstanding this cultural record, however, the Gypsies have faced nothing but persecution.

This book provides scholarly accounts of Gypsy culture, art and music together with contemporary accounts of developments in Gypsy education and health. It contains collaborative work not only from established Romani Studies scholars such as Ian Hancock, David Smith and Michael Stewart, but also from younger writers, and is essential reading for anyone working with or studying Gypsies.

  • About the Editor/s:

    Thomas Acton

    Thomas Acton is Professor Emeritus of Romani Studies at Greenwich University. He has written or contributed to many publications and is committed to supporting the rights of Gypsies.

    Other titles by this author

    Travellers, Gypsies, Roma: The demonisation of difference, Michael Hayes and Thomas Acton (2007)

    All Change: Romani Studies through Romani eyes, Damian Le Bas and Thomas Acton (2010)

    Gypsy Politics and Traveller Identity, Thomas Acton (Ed) (1997)

    Romani Culture and Gypsy Identity, Thomas Acton and Gary Mundy (Eds) (1997)


    Gary Mundy

    Gary Mundy is co-editor of Romani Culture and Gypsy Identity.

ISBN: 978-0-900458-76-7 Format: Paperback, 203pp Published: May 1997

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