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New York : Berghahn Books, 2016

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9781782388869 (e-book)

ISBN 9781782388791 (hardback : alk. paper)

The human economy ; volume 3

Print version: Gypsy Economy : Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century. New York : Berghahn Books, 2016 vi, 263 pages ; 24 cm. The human economy ; volume 3

Includes bibliographical references and index

"Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. Authors explore these complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, how economic opportunities are constructed and seized, and how economic success and failure are transformed into attributes of social persons. They explore how, despite -- or perhaps because of -- their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, shared today with a growing number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies. The ethnographically based chapters share accounts of socially and vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity"--Provided by publisher..

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