Judith Okely’s The T raveller-Gypsies is an ethnography of England’s nomads: The Traveller-Gypsies is a book with a message: travelling peoples in Britain. The Traveller-Gypsies, Judith Okely, London: Cambridge University Press, pp. $ (cloth), $ (paper). Show all authors. Marlene Sway. Judith Okely is emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, Hull University and of Gypsies or Travellers in England and Wales, which resulted in a Ministry.
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It will also interest the general reader and the academic specialist; social anthropologists, sociologists, historians, geographers, jueith and all those concerned with minority groups.
Non-territorial culture as the rationale for the assimilation okwly Gypsy children. Skip to main content. Back to home trraveller-gypsies. Social historians have understandably viewed accounts by the aged more as sources of information about the past rather than as interpretations within the current context of the aged In this paper I examine aspects of the aged’s experience of place and their movements both over time and at a given time. Rural specificity is either shown to be irrelevant Dr Okely draws on her own extensive fieldwork and on contemporary documents.
The Best Books of Other – See seller’s payment instructions. This book will be invaluable for teaching purposes, both as a study of a Gypsy community per se, and for its discussion of the problems involved in carrying out fieldwork within the anthropologist’s own society. The Gypsies Angus Fraser No preview available – Dr Okely draws on her own extensive fieldwork and on contemporary documents. This book will be invaluable for teaching purposes, both as a study of a Gypsy community per se, and for its discussion of the problems involved in carrying out fieldwork within traveller-gypises anthropologist’s own society.
Please enter a number less than or equal to 1. In some circumstances these may be the ingredients for a mass protest but in others they occur in fragmented form.
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Living on Gypsy Camps more. It will also interest the general travveller-gypsies and the academic specialist; social anthropologists, sociologists, historians, geographers, planners and all those concerned with minority groups. It examines the historical origins of the Gypsies, their economy, travelling patterns, self-ascription, kinship and political groupings, and their marriage choices, upbringing and gender divisions.
Fieldwork reveals embedded systems inaccessible through jkdith quantifiable. I don’t like the vibes I get from this book. Two prisons once incarcerated the most dangerous and the criminally insane, while idyllic locations record Queen Victoria, Tennyson, Keats and Dickens. None of these aspects are analysed independently of the wider society, its policies, beliefs, and practices. Ben O’mara marked it as to-read Jun 18, For additional information, see the Global Shipping Programme terms and conditions – opens in a new window or tab This amount includes applicable customs duties, taxes, brokerage and other fees.
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