Susanne Kianicka
Roma communities today
ANTH 4020/5020, Fall 2010
Information regarding Final Exam
on Saturday Dec. 11.
1.30 – 3.30 pm
Format:
Written test with:
- Definition questions (“Please define ...”)
- Comprehension questions (“Explain why the Roma ...”)
- Multiple choice questions
- Short essay
Content:
Entire body of assigned readings
Contents of classes (presentations & discussions)
Central texts are:
Ian Hancock. 2002. We are the Romani people (Ame sam e Rromane džene). Hatfield: University of
Hertfordshire press, pp. 1-33 (Ch. 1: History: Ch. 2 : Rrobija: Slavery; Ch. 3: The Buxljaripe: Out into
Europe).
Barany, Zoltan. 2002. The East European Gypsies. Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 83-111 (Ch. 3: The Gypsies in Imperial and
Authoritarian States).
Huttenbach, Henry H. 1991. ‘The Romani Pořajmos. The Nazi Genocide of Gypsies in Germany and
Eastern Europe’, in Crowe D. And Kolsti J. (eds.) The Gypsies of Eastern Europe, New York: M.E.
Sharpe, pp. 31-49.
Barany, Zoltan. 2002. The East European Gypsies. Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 112-153 (Ch. 4: The Roma under State-Socialism).
Bakker, Peter and Kyuchukov, Hristo. 2000. What is the Romani language? Hatfield: University of
Hertfordshire Press, pp. 39-68 (Ch. III: Language use; Ch. IV: Language and Culture).
Tcherenkov, Lev and Laederich, Stéphane. 2004. The Rroma. Othewise known as Gypsies, gitanos,
Гύчтоі, Tsiganes, Ţigani, Cingene, Zigeuner, Bohémines, Travellers, Fahrende, etc. Vol. 2:
Traditions and Texts. Basel: Schwabe, Chapter 25 & 29.
Trumpener, Katie. 1992. ‘The Time of the Gypsies: A People without History in the Narratives of
the West’, Critical Inquiry, vol. 18(4), pp. 843-84.
Mayall, David. 2004. Gypsy Identities 1500-2000. From Egipcyans and Moon-men to the Ethnic
Romany. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 220-251 (Ch. 8: Constructing the ethnic Gypsy.
Themes and approaches).
Barany, Zoltan. 2002. The East European Gypsies. Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 202-240 (Ch. 6: Romani Mobilization)
Scheffel, David. 2005. Svinia in black and white: Slovak Roma and their neighbours. Toronto:
Broadview Press, pp. 211-225, (Ch. Conclusions: What went wrong in Svinia?)
Central case studies:
Margalit, Gilad and Matras, Yaron. 2007. ‘Gypsies in Germany – German Gypsies? Identity and
Politics of Sinti and Roma in Germany’, in Stauber, R. And Vago, R. (eds.) The Roma. A Minority in
Europe. Historical, political and social perspectives. Budapest & New York: Central European
University Press, pp. 103-133.
Susanne Kianicka
Roma communities today
ANTH 4020/5020, Fall 2010
Sutherland, Anne. 1975. Gypsies: The Hidden Americans New York: The Free Press. Reprinted
1986, Prospect Heights: Waveland, pp. 1-63 (Ch. Introduction; Ch. 1: Methodology: Ch. 2: The
Kumpania)
Gropper, Rena. 1975. Gypsies in the city. Cultural Patterns and Survival. Princeton: The Darwin
Press, pp.17-59 (Ch. 2: Gypsies in the United States and in New York; Ch. 3: The Economics of being
a Gypsy).
Scheffel, David. 2005. Svinia in black and white: Slovak Roma and their neighbours. Toronto:
Broadview Press, pp. 47-138, (Ch. Two: Inside the osada).
Gay y Blasco, Paloma. 2001. ‘We Don’t Know Our Descent’: How the Gitanos of Jarana Manage the
Past. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 631-647.
The following will NOT be tested:
Year dates
Historic events that have taken place before the 20th cent. and are not directly connected with
Roma.
Roma group names – except the ones in the main case studies (Slovak Roma, US Roma,
Spanish Roma, German Roma)
Rules:
No auxiliary material whatsoever is allowed in the classroom.
No extra sheets of paper.
The only thing allowed on your table is a pencil/ball pen