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• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Historical categories and representations
• Foreigners and counterfeits
• Vagrants: an alternative category
• ‘Depraved’ and ripe for conversion
• Cultural differentiation
• The Indian connection
• Some indigenous origins?
• Romanies or half-castes
• Travellers, Tinkers, Gypsies and exotic origins
• Non-ethnic, ‘universalistic’ categories
• Laws and policy in the twentieth century
• Literature and social science
• 2 Modern misrepresentations
• Alleged isolation
• The rural image
• Horse-drawn caravans
• The notion of a separate culture and economy
• The notion of a ‘pure-blooded race’
• The myth of land scarcity
• 3 Methods of approach
• The circumstances for research
• Ways of entering
• Participant observation
• What and how to record
• Analysis
• Method of presentation
• Units
• 4 Economic niche
• Dependence and independence
• Self-employment
• The Travellers’ craft
• The family work unit3
• Work partnerships
• Occasional hired Gorgio labour
• Key work contacts with Gorgios
• Economic status and expenditure
• 5 Self-ascription
• Outsider’s definitions
• The principle of descent
• Ethnography of descent
• Didikois, Romanies and ‘Gypsy blood’
• Geographical and national affiliation
• 6 Symbolic boundaries
• Explanations
• Public health or inner purity
• Inner/outer body symbolism
• Food and health
• Spatial organisation
• Site layout
• Animal categories
• Animal body symbolism: washing and eating
• Ideological and spatial relations: the cat
• Dogs, game and contest
• The horse
• The hedgehog
• 7 Gorgio planning
• I960: Gypsy sites closed. 1970: council sites required
• Sites and settlement
• Independent sites and stopping places
• Policy developments in the 1970s
• 8 Travelling
• Seasonal and historical regularities
• Non-seasonal factors in movement
• The ideology of travelling
• Housing
• Travelling in time and space
• Specific movements
• Gorgio harassment
• Gorgio fine
• Gorgio eviction
• Theft
• Imprisonment
• Agriculture
• General migration
• Regular small circuit
• Conflict with other Travellers
• Death
• Ethnic image and political encounter
• Motorisation and technological adaptation
• Travelling and economic status
• 9 The trailer unit, spouses and children
• Composition
• Marriage
• Prohibited categories in choice of spouse
• The developmental cycle
• Education and childhood
• Relations with outsiders
• Internal relations
• Innocence a protection
• 10 Group relations and personal relatives
• Nations and leaders
• Cognatic kinship and political clusters
• Naming
• Marriage links and patterns
• Political clusters: some characteristics
• Groups in contexts
• Weddings
• Funerals
• 11 Gypsy women
• Gorgio view of Gypsy women
• Gypsy view of Gypsy women
• Contradictions
• Pollution and Calling
• Gypsy view of Gorgio women
• Gorgio use of their Gypsy stereotypes
• 12 Ghosts and Gorgios
• Different explanations
• The ethnography of death
• The mulo needs a fixed abode
• Interpretatio
• Concluding remarks
• Extract from The Scholar Gypsy
• Notes
• References
• Index