Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Transcriptions, Pronunciations and Vocabulary

Introduction

PART I THE ROM WORLD

Chapter 1. Roma in the Romanian Figuration
Chapter 2. Cultivating and Harvesting Social Environment
Chapter 3. Gender, Shame and Honour
Chapter 4. Amari Familia: Belonging Together
Chapter 5. Competing for Equality
Chapter 6. Rom Leadership: Joska Bulibasa
Chapter 7. Romanimo: Towards a Rom Cosmology

PART II ROMA AS VILLAGERS

Chapter 8. Village Life, Peasant Cosmology
Chapter 9. Exchange and Power
Chapter 10. The Tigan as Signifier

Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Ada I. Engebrigtsen worked for 10 years in a rehabilitation program for Rom in Norway. The current book is based on 12 months fieldwork among Rom Gypsies and Romanians in Romania. She is a senior researcher at NOVA Norwegian social research, Oslo.

Reviews

“[The author] successfully unpacks the grounds for exclusion and intermingling between ethnic identities and groups, revealing the dimensions of agency within the apparently fixed and unassailable ‘Roma’ category of being. The book facilitates critical thinking about the dense trilogy of identity, marginality, and poverty which work with Rom evokes.”  ·  JRAI "...a valuable book that makes a significant contribution to the discussion of interethnic relations in Romania and beyond...and addresses a multitude of intriguing questions in a competent mannter."  ·  Anthropos