Gender, ethnicity, and education in lăutar (Romani musician) families in Romania: Personal and professional strategies for twenty-first-century life choices

IF 0.2 4区社会学 Q4 ANTHROPOLOGY

Romani Studies Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI:10.3828/RS.2018.2

Margaret H. Beissinger

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Abstract:Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, I explore how gender, ethnic identity, and education inform career, marriage, and family in the lives of sons and daughters of lăutari (professional Romani musicians) at the intersection of traditional Romani and contemporary Romanian society. Sons are socialized to adopt the occupation of their fathers, becoming professional musicians who will support future families; they perpetuate traditional lăutar culture. While daughters are also socialized within the family to assume domestic "female" roles, most in my fieldwork have rejected them, deviating significantly from the traditional culture of their mothers as they pursue, instead, upward mobility and socio-economic empowerment. They are pioneering new roles for lăutar – and Romani–women. For both sons and daughters, journeys of upward mobility are distinguished by achievement and success but also by dilemmas of identity and belonging as well as tension and conflict as they reconcile traditional Romani and urban, modern Romanian lives.

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罗马尼亚lăutar（罗马尼亚音乐家）家庭的性别、种族和教育：二十一世纪人生选择的个人和职业策略

摘要：基于长期的民族志田野调查，我探索了在传统罗马尼亚社会和当代罗马尼亚社会的交叉点上，lăutari（专业罗马尼亚音乐家）的儿子和女儿的生活中，性别、种族认同和教育如何影响职业、婚姻和家庭。儿子们被社会化，接受父亲的职业，成为支持未来家庭的职业音乐家；他们延续了勒乌塔传统文化。虽然女儿们也在家庭中被社会化，承担家庭“女性”角色，但在我的实地调查中，大多数人都拒绝了她们，在她们追求向上流动和社会经济赋权的过程中，与母亲的传统文化大相径庭。她们开创了勒乌塔和罗马尼亚女性的新角色。对于儿子和女儿来说，向上流动的旅程以成就和成功为特征，但也以身份和归属的困境以及紧张和冲突为特征，因为它们调和了传统的罗姆人和城市现代罗马尼亚人的生活。

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Romani Studies Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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0.80

自引率

50.00%

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1888, the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society was published in four series up to 1982. In 2000, the journal became Romani Studies. On behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society, Romani Studies features articles on many different communities which, regardless of their origins and self-appellations in various languages, have been referred to in English as Gypsies. These communities include the descendants of migrants from the Indian subcontinent which have been considered as falling into three large subdivisions, Dom, Lom, and Rom. The field has also included communities of other origins which practice, or in the past have practiced, a specific type of service nomadism. The journal publishes articles in history, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, linguistics, art, literature, folklore and music, as well as reviews of books and audiovisual materials.