Romani Culture and Gypsy Identity
- ISBN-10
- 0900458763
- ISBN-13
- 9780900458767
- Category
- Irish Travellers (Nomadic people)
- Pages
- 212
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Univ of Hertfordshire Press
- Authors
- Thomas Alan Acton, Gary Mundy
Description
Romany culture is perhaps the most Indo-European of all. The ancestors of the Gypsies left India around 1000 years ago and mixed with every culture on the way to produce a variety of Romany dialects and well-known cultural achievements from Hungarian Gypsy music to the English Gypsy caravan. Such images somehow co-exist, however, with continuous persecution.
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