Publication details
Variácie identifikácií v rómskej komunite z mexickej Guadalajary
| Title in English | The variations of identification in a Romani community in Guadalajara, Mexico |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Romano Džaniben (časopis romistických studií) |
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| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | Roms; Mexico; ethnographic research; identification; Romani identity; human agency; imagined representations; everydayness |
| Description | he article illustrates the life of a Romani community settled in Guadalajara, Mexico in order to approach the nature of its collective identity. The aim of the ethnographic research that preceded this article was to capture the most significant ways of representing of themselves just as the representing of the foreign (ethnic) groups/identities of these particular Roms in their specific context. This variation of “being a Rom” is not primarily studied through the “classic” Romani categories such as marriage practices, gender or kinship. I would rather present the meanings of the interaction with the majority and the specific Romani manipulation with the influences of the Mexican environment just as the deviations from the traditional norms. Through the examples of their everydayness I tried to demonstrate that the cultural differences are not only external differences, they are subconscious cultural elements that make up the essential images about the world and organize the structure of the community together with its natural transformational processes. |