Gypsy Economy : : Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century / / ed. by Micol Brazzabeni, Martin Fotta, Manuela Ivone Cunha.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Acedo, Sara Sama,; Brazzabeni, Micol,; Durst, Judit,; Ferrari, Florencia,; Fotta, Martin,; Grill, Jan,; Hart, Keith,; Hrustič, Tomáš,; Manrique, Nathalie,; Olivera, Martin,; Pulay, Gergő,; Solimene, Marco,; Tesăr, Cătălina,
• HerausgeberIn: Brazzabeni, Micol,; Cunha, Manuela Ivone,; Fotta, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: The Human Economy ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Gypsy Economy --; Chapter 1 Usury among the Slovak Roma: Notes on Relations between Lenders and Borrowers in a Segregated Taboris --; Chapter 2 New Redistributors in Times of Insecurity: Different Types of Informal Lending in Hungary --; Chapter 3 A Way of Life Flowing in the Interstices: Cigano Horse Dealers in Alentejo, Portugal --; Chapter 4 ‘Endured Labour’ and ‘Fixing Up’ Money The Economic Strategies of Roma Migrants in Slovakia and the UK --; Chapter 5 ‘I Go for Iron’ Xoraxané Romá Collecting Scrap Metal in Rome --; Chapter 6 ‘I’m Good but also Mad’ The Street Economy in a Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest --; Chapter 7 The Mechanisms of Independence: Economic Ethics and the Domestic Mode of Production among Gabori Roma in Transylvania --; Chapter 8 Deceit and Efficacy: Fortune Telling among the Calon Gypsies in São Paulo, Brazil --; Chapter 9 Houses under Construction: Conspicuous Consumption and the Values of Youth among Romanian Cortorari Gypsies --; Chapter 10 Exchange, Shame and Strength among Calon of Bahia: A Values-based Analysis --; Chapter 11 ‘Give and Don’t Keep Anything!’ Wealth, Hierarchy and Identity among the Gypsies of Two Small Towns in Andalusia, Spain --; Afterword --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782388869; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782388869
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Micol Brazzabeni, Martin Fotta, Manuela Ivone Cunha.

Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. The authors of this volume explore these complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, how economic opportunities are constructed and seized, and how economic success and failure are transformed into attributes of social persons. They explore how, despite — or perhaps because of — their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, shared today with a growing number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies. The ethnographically based chapters share accounts of socially and economically vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity.