Pub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2024.2317600
Daria Dyakonova
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Pub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2024.2317600
Daria Dyakonova
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Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2024.2317601
Yury Medvedev, Inessa Tarusina
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Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2024.2317628
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Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2024.2317628
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Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2024.2317601
Yury Medvedev, Inessa Tarusina
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Pub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2024.2317602
Elena Grad-Rusu
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Pub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2024.2317602
Elena Grad-Rusu
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Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2277079
Péter Berta
ABSTRACTThe article examines how two symbolic arenas of Gabor Roma politics – the accumulation of wealth (with a special focus on competitive luxury consumption centred around beakers and roofed tankards made of antique silver) and marriage politics – are intertwined and interact with each other. The first part introduces Roma politics, describes the most important features of luxury consumption and marriage politics, and delineates the main types of interconnectedness and interplay between these two symbolic arenas. The second part, using a marital biographical perspective, sheds light on how one of these types of interconnectedness works through a detailed analysis of the establishment and dissolution of an engagement of historical importance among the Gabor Roma. This case study demonstrates why and how economic and political ambitions or constraints may shape individual and family-level strategies and decision-making concerning partner choice and marriage politics. The article serves as an insightful example of why a marital biographical perspective – based on concepts such as processuality, dynamism, relatedness, and context-sensitivity – is well suited to provide a nuanced insight into how the political economy of family life works in various ethnographic settings.KEYWORDS: Economyluxury consumptionmarriage politicsfamily lifeGabor Roma Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. These objects, produced by non-Roma silversmiths – mainly Transylvanian Saxons and Hungarians – were originally owned by non-Roma aristocrats, burghers, guilds, and Calvinist Church congregations.2. Concerning arranged marriages among (non-Gabor) Romanian Roma see, for example, Beissinger (Citation2020); Bitu and Morteanu (Citation2010); Crai (Citation2015); Engebrigtsen (Citation2007); Oprea (Citation2004), Citation(2005a), Citation(2005b); Tesăr (Citation2016), (Citation2018).3. The key element of the dowry is the marriage payment. In the determination of the actual amount the parties take into account several factors, particularly successes in Roma politics, often through a lengthy process of negotiation. The marriage payments that I observed in the last two and a half decades – between well-to-do families – were generally in the range of US$10,000–US$30,000, and the highest was €100,000.4. On the life of workers and state-owned companies before the political regime change, see Bartha (Citation2011), (Citation2012).5. Taking into account the National Bank of Romania’s exchange rates of 4 December 2000, 300,000 German marks were worth US$135,954. This purchase price was equal to 1,215 times the gross average monthly salary in Romania in 2000.6. The extent of the lender’s political ambition is well illustrated by the fact that – using his social influence – he secretly persuaded Marko’s only helpful acquaintance to reject Marko’s loan application. Due to this political manoeuvre, Marko had no other choice but to borr
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Pub Date : 2023-11-05DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2277080
Töhötöm Szabó
ABSTRACTThe present study investigates the case of a Hungarian-speaking Roma community in a Szekler village (Transylvania) from the perspectives of (contested) ethnic belonging, kinship, and different forms of capital, and presents the struggles of a relatively newly formed group within this community for finding new social and ethnic positions in relation with their Roma fellows and also with the Hungarian/Szekler majority. The members of this new group are the most successful in basket weaving, the special craft of local Roma, while they also share a common family history when they link their descent to a funding father who raised 11 children. The family histories of the descent – besides referring to supposed Hungarian ancestors/relatives – are told in terms of work ethic, education, and religious life that all resulted in wealth, thus creating a new local ethnic group whose members constantly contest their Roma ethnic belonging and delimit themselves from the ordinary Roma. This in-betweenness unfolds the certainties and uncertainties of social and economic life, the identities between self, family, and community. The case can be perceived as an example of the dynamics of local social life and offer a view on the renegotiation of group formation and ethnic boundaries.KEYWORDS: Ethnic belongingkinshipcapitalagencyin-between Disclosure statementsNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. I deliberately do not narrow the fieldwork locales further. Nor do I present the village analysed here in detail.2. Szeklerland: the eastern part of Transylvania inhabited by Szeklers (Hungarian ethnic group), encompassing today’s Harghita and Covasna counties and part of Mureș County.3. For a more detailed presentation, see later and in my previous work (see Szabó Citation2019). These categories are primarily, as will be shown below, related to work, but they also carry important identification meanings.4. The last 10–15 years have seen a decline in demand for wicker products and a restructuring of the market. Many Roma are also responding to this challenge by working abroad (see Szabó Citation2019).5. On the village, Roma groups and labour migration, see also (Szabó Citation2019). One important note: the model could not cover the Roma community in its entirety. There are families that have a specific position within the Roma community, they could also cross borders. In the 2000s, an entrepreneur emerged from among the workers who today, based on his economic activity, would be classified as a manager, but his lack of social capital and the opposition of managers still keep him outside this group. Also, since the 2000s, a few tent-dweller (sátoros, sátor = tent) families speaking the Vlach-Gipsy language have appeared. Neither the Hungarians nor the local Roma have any contact with them.6. All my respondents whom I quote are local male basket weavers, members of the elite group. I identify them with their year of birth. For two res
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