{"title":"A community without history? A life story approach to Romany memory and ethnicity","authors":"E. Šūpulis","doi":"10.3828/RS.2019.02","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper approaches Romany memory culture through life stories and is based on results and conceptualizations from the study of biographical narratives and life experiences obtained within various ethnic and cultural settings in Latvia. It explores how the experience of living under different political regimes is conveyed in communicative memory through collected life stories of Roma people. Many studies point out the apparent indifference to history in Roma communities. Roma people do not seek to emphasize their distinct identity, and their history is not fixed in artefacts such as monuments and national narratives. Analysis of Romany life stories allows the perception of relationship between the status of a given group in society, Gypsies' historical experience, and their neglect of the past.","PeriodicalId":52533,"journal":{"name":"Romani Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Romani Studies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3828/RS.2019.02","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ANTHROPOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This paper approaches Romany memory culture through life stories and is based on results and conceptualizations from the study of biographical narratives and life experiences obtained within various ethnic and cultural settings in Latvia. It explores how the experience of living under different political regimes is conveyed in communicative memory through collected life stories of Roma people. Many studies point out the apparent indifference to history in Roma communities. Roma people do not seek to emphasize their distinct identity, and their history is not fixed in artefacts such as monuments and national narratives. Analysis of Romany life stories allows the perception of relationship between the status of a given group in society, Gypsies' historical experience, and their neglect of the past.
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Founded in 1888, the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society was published in four series up to 1982. In 2000, the journal became Romani Studies. On behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society, Romani Studies features articles on many different communities which, regardless of their origins and self-appellations in various languages, have been referred to in English as Gypsies. These communities include the descendants of migrants from the Indian subcontinent which have been considered as falling into three large subdivisions, Dom, Lom, and Rom. The field has also included communities of other origins which practice, or in the past have practiced, a specific type of service nomadism. The journal publishes articles in history, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, linguistics, art, literature, folklore and music, as well as reviews of books and audiovisual materials.
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