The Time of the Gypsies

The Time of the Gypsies
Contents
List of Tables and Illustrations
Foreword, Maurice Bloch
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
1 Introduction: The Lowest of the Low
	Post-Communist Gypsies, or Roma
	Communists and Gypsies
	Modernity and Diversity
	The Local Setting and the Problem of Difference
	“Gaiety in the Face of Despair”
Part One The Gypsy Way
	2 Gypsy Work
		An Origin Story
		The Free Lunch
		Gypsy Horses
	3 A Place of Their Own
		Gypsy Settlements
		Work
		The Ethics of Communal Life
		Idioms of Community and Identity: Romanes
	4 “We Are All Brothers Here”
		A World Apparently Made of Men
		Alternative Images of Sociality: Nonbrotherly Relations
		Breaking Down the House
		The Nature of Community and the Means of Resistance
	5 Breaking Out
		“If Only We Lived Alone”
		Šošoj and Čaja: Getting Rich on One’s Own
		Čoro and Luludji’s Story: Upwardly Mobile Gypsies
		The Rejection of Differentiation
Part Two Beyond the Ghetto
	6 Making Workers Out of Gypsies
		Assimilation as Proletarianization
		“The Living, Form-giving Fire”
		The Parquet Flooring Factory
		Redemption Through Labor?
	7 Gaźos, Peasants, Communists, and Gypsies
		Cigány
		Gaźo
		Peasants Who Are Masters of Themselves
		Disorderly Persons
		Communists and Gaźos
		Gypsies, Peasants, and Communists
	8 Staying Gypsy in a World of Gaźos
		“My Heart Was Cut in Two”
		The Real and the Imaginary
Part Three The Reinvention of the World
	9 Sons of the Market
		Horses, Men, and Rom
		Market Society
		A Day at the Market
		The Economics of Horse Dealing
		The Pure Dealer, or Middleman
		Dealers as Managers of Men
	10 A Passion for Dealing
		From Dependence to Autonomy Through Luck
		Trade and the Construction of Society
	11 Brothers in Song
		Celebrations
		Slow Songs
		True Speech
		Song and the Ritualization of Equality
	12 The Shame of the Body
		Dirty Gypsies
		The Purity of the Rom Body
		Shame and the Gendered Person
		The Modest and the Shameless Body
		Beyond the Body
	13 Conclusion: Marginality, Resistance, and Ideology
		The Sources of the Rom Adaptation
		Rom Identity, Ethnicity, and Ideology
		A Sealed Ideology and Its “Open Sesame”
Glossary
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
About the Book and Author
Index