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Gypsies in contemporary Egypt : on the peripheries of society / Alexandra Parrs.
Author
Parrs, Alexandra
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English
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Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2017.
©2017
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vii, 228 pages ; 24 cm
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DX293 .P37 2017
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Romanies
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Egypt
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Romanies
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Egypt
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Social conditions
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21st century
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Romanies
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Egypt
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Social life and customs
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21st century
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Summary note
In Gypsies in Contemporary Egypt sociologist Alexandra Parrs draws on two years of fieldwork to explore how Dom identities are constructed, negotiated, and contested in the specifically Egyptian national context. With an eye to the pitfalls and evolution of scholarly work on the vastly more studied European Roma, she traces the scattered representations of Egyptian Dom, from accounts of them by nineteenth-century European Orientalists to their portrayal in Egyptian cinema as belly dancers in the 1950s and beggars and thieves more recently.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.
Contents
Introduction
The eternal quest for roots
From belly dancers to thieves
Uncrossable boundaries?
Identity negotiation : ignoring, passing, changing, and exchanging
Underground world : crime in the blood and secret language
Matriarchy and bride price : Ghagar traditions?
Conclusions : the fragmented construction of Egyptians gypsies.
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ISBN
9774168305
9789774168307
LCCN
2017448162
OCLC
962242325
Other standard number
99976155732
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