Animals and symbolic boundaries.(The Gypsies, the Rom: A Culture at the Borders)

From: Papers on Language & Literature | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Zatta, Jane Dick | Copyright information

TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY JAMES HILL from The Gypsies, the Rom: A Culture at the Borders

The gypsies are constantly pushed to assimilate into the dominant society, which imposes on them its rules and its patterns. They need to reconcile the need to modify themselves under the pressure coming from the surrounding society with the need to conserve intact their underlying identity. The Rom are a tiny population dispersed in the middle of another population hostile to t...

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