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Gypsy Identities 1500-2000: From Egipcyans and Moon-men to the Ethnic Romany

Published 3 December 2003
David Mayall
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Abstract

1. The forming of Gypsy Identities 2. Gypsy Studies and Socially Constructed Identities 3. Egyptians, Land-Pirates, Moon-men and Vagabonds : the Gypsy in Early Modern England 4. Race: the evolution of an idea 5. Constructing the true Romany: Gypsy racial identity from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century 6. The Origins of the Real Romany Gypsy: from Heinrich Grellmann to the Gypsy Lorists 7. Ethnicity: the concept 8. Constructing the Ethnic Gypsy 9. Nuisances, Dead Dogs And Gypsies 10. So, who are the Gypsies?

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