Aspects socio-historiques et culturels d'une population gitane en Alsace

Abstract

Evoking the way of life of a gypsy population means studying why their mobility is in a way like a form of exile. The gypsy, in his ambiguous position, has an effect on the imagination of people : he both the predator and the victim. These gypsies have always been trying to find their bearings by specific trades and intense religious practices. We must try to reconsider the place of the gypsy in cultural, social, historical and geographical spaces to perceive how their mobility can embody dreams and arouse anguish