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Gypsies and Other Itinerant Groups

A Socio-Historical Approach

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Leo Lucassen

    1. Centre for the History of Migrants, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Wim Willems

    1. Centre for the History of Migrants, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. Annemarie Cottaar

    1. Centre for the History of Migrants, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Leo Lucassen, Wim Willems, Annemarie Cottaar
      Pages 1-13

  3. Images and Representations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Ethnicity as a Death-Trap: the History of Gypsy Studies

      • Wim Willems
      Pages 17-34

    3. The Church of Knowledge: Representation of Gypsies in Encyclopaedias

      • Wim Willems, Leo Lucassen
      Pages 35-52

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 190-226
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About this book

In this volume the authors present an alternative approach to the history of gypsies and travelling groups in western Europe. By focusing on processes of social construction, stigmatization and categorization, they offer new insights into the development of government policies towards itinerants in general and the ethnicization of some of these groups in particular. They analyze the western images and representations of gypsies and other itinerant groups, at the same time focusing on their functions for the labour market. By doing so, they add a new chapter to the field of social history.

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'Collections of essays often too broadly or too narrowly circumscribe their topic to be useful for comparative purposes, but this collection works well.' - British Bulletin of Publications

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for the History of Migrants, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Leo Lucassen, Wim Willems, Annemarie Cottaar

About the authors

FLORENCIA CORTÉS-CONDE Director, Communications Programme, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires DARIÉN J. DAVID Associate Professor of History, Middlebury College, Vermont GEOFFREY FISHER Geography Department, University of Derby ROSS A. GRAHAM Freelance Teacher LOUISE GUENTHER Assistant Professor of History, St John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico RONALD HARPELLE Assistant Professor of History, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario DEBORAH JAKUBS Adjunct Associate Professor of History, Perkins Library of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina PATRICK McKENNA Independent Researcher JAMES N. McELVEEN Editor, US Department of State JOHN MAYO Senior Lecturer in History, University of West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados LAURIE NOCK Anthropology Instructor, Grande Prairie Regional College, Alberta KAREN RACINE Assistant Professor of History, Valparaiso University, Indiana JIM ROSS Senior Lecturer in English and Communications, London Guildhall University BARBARA A. TENENBAUM Specialist in Mexican Culture, US Library of Congress

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