Romani StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.3828/rost.2023.12
Yaroslav Vassilkov
{"title":"The folklore of the European Roma and mythologies of the Indian tribal world","authors":"Yaroslav Vassilkov","doi":"10.3828/rost.2023.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/rost.2023.12","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to define the nature of puzzling texts published at the end of the nineteenth century by H. von Wlislocki. Are they fruits of his creative fantasy, a mystification, or some non-Gypsy texts disguised as Gypsy tales? Can it be that they represent authentic Romani folklore and have links with Indian culture, as Wlislocki suggested? In the paper, two myths and a folktale from Wlislocki’s collection are analyzed against the wide background of world folklore. Parallels to these texts have been found in India, though not in the Sanskrit literature where Wlislocki looked for them, but in the mythologies of Indian tribes.\u0000 \u0000 This article was published open access under a CC BY licence:\u0000 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0\u0000 .\u0000","PeriodicalId":52533,"journal":{"name":"Romani Studies","volume":"18 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139009456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romani StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.3828/rost.2023.11
Ewa Nowicka, Maciej Witkowski
{"title":"Attitudes towards the mother tongue among Roma in Poland","authors":"Ewa Nowicka, Maciej Witkowski","doi":"10.3828/rost.2023.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/rost.2023.11","url":null,"abstract":"An assumption shared for years by Romani studies scholars is that the Roma language is seminal to the group’s identity. The text is an in-depth analysis of the beliefs of Roma in Poland regarding their mother tongue. The inspiration for this exploration stems from a theoretical model shedding light on correlations between knowledge of the Romani language and the Roma ethnic identity, the model Marushiakova and Popov developed with reference to the situation of Roma in Central Eastern Europe. The paper focuses on the question: What meaning do Roma in Poland assign to knowledge of the Romani language in the construction of their own ethnic identity? The authors argue that irrespective of the fact that the mother tongue currently appears to be a key element of group identity, Romaniness contains the potential to reproduce itself even under circumstances of language abandonment and even among the most conservative Romani groups.\u0000 \u0000 This article was published open access under a CC BY licence:\u0000 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0\u0000 .\u0000","PeriodicalId":52533,"journal":{"name":"Romani Studies","volume":"52 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139007059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romani StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.3828/rost.2023.8
Daphne Reitinger
{"title":"The origin of the self-appellation Sinti: A historical and linguistic examination","authors":"Daphne Reitinger","doi":"10.3828/rost.2023.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/rost.2023.8","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The origin of the self-appellation Sinti has been the subject of investigation for well over 200 years. In the wake of the discovery of the Indo-Aryan affiliation of Romani, one of the earliest sources (Biester 1793b) mentioning the term “Sinte” interprets it as\u0000 der wahre Name\u0000 (the true name) of all Gypsies and allocates its origin to the province Sindh of the Indian sub-continent (Biester 1793b: 365–6). More recently, Matras (1999; 2019) argued for the term\u0000 Sinti\u0000 to be a European borrowing in Romani due to its employment of inflectional patterns characteristic of European loanwords. In this paper, early attestations of this self-appellation with regard to their dialectological inferences are examined and an underlying root\u0000 sint\u0000 is ascertained. Via the Middle High German (MHG) etymon\u0000 sint\u0000 , in the meaning of “way, road, journey,” and the German collective and appellative suffix\u0000 -e\u0000 , the meaning of\u0000 Sinti\u0000 is interpreted as “wayfarers” or “those who journey.”\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 This article was published open access under a CC BY licence:\u0000 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0\u0000 .\u0000","PeriodicalId":52533,"journal":{"name":"Romani Studies","volume":"10 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romani StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.3828/rost.2023.15
{"title":"Link to the Full Issue","authors":"","doi":"10.3828/rost.2023.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/rost.2023.15","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article was published open access under a CC BY licence:\u0000 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0\u0000 .\u0000","PeriodicalId":52533,"journal":{"name":"Romani Studies","volume":"14 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139009792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romani StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.3828/rost.2023.10
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, M. Garapich, Kamila Fiałkowska
{"title":"Migratory encounters, common idiom, and the king: The relationship between two Roma groups from Poland in transnational social space","authors":"Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, M. Garapich, Kamila Fiałkowska","doi":"10.3828/rost.2023.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/rost.2023.10","url":null,"abstract":"Roma ethnicity presents scholars with plenty of conceptual and methodological challenges, which in the light of the increased mobility of that largest European minority after EU enlargements has additionally perplexed academics and policymakers alike. This article presents our fieldwork data derived from encounters and conversations with Roma individuals in Poland and England. Our approach to this issue is rooted in the emic perspective, examining how Roma people navigate and cope with their own heterogeneity. By focusing on the relationship between two Roma groups from Poland, namely Polska Roma and Bergitka (or Carpathian) Roma, we shed light on Roma’s practical approaches to their group identity. We explore what is at stake when boundaries are encountered, negotiated, and occasionally bridged, in particular when it comes to gender and conflict resolution strategies. In the article, we account for the two groups’ interconnections through the history of migrations and current modes of transnational living. We show how, interestingly, nationality or common country of origin may become the binding factor.\u0000 \u0000 This article was published open access under a CC BY licence:\u0000 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0\u0000 .\u0000","PeriodicalId":52533,"journal":{"name":"Romani Studies","volume":"16 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138977108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romani StudiesPub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.3828/rost.2023.2
R. Roman, Risto Blomster
{"title":"Forgotten pioneers? The Karelian connection and the role of Kaale women in the mobilization of Finnish Roma at the start of the twentieth century","authors":"R. Roman, Risto Blomster","doi":"10.3828/rost.2023.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/rost.2023.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52533,"journal":{"name":"Romani Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46387747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romani StudiesPub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.3828/rost.2023.7
Julieta Rotaru
{"title":"Women breadwinners in Gypsy socio-professional groups of pre-industrial Wallachia","authors":"Julieta Rotaru","doi":"10.3828/rost.2023.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/rost.2023.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52533,"journal":{"name":"Romani Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44952925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romani StudiesPub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.3828/rost.2023.1
Sofiya Zahova
{"title":"Editorial: Roma women and civic emancipation in the interwar period","authors":"Sofiya Zahova","doi":"10.3828/rost.2023.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/rost.2023.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52533,"journal":{"name":"Romani Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48859698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romani StudiesPub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.3828/rost.2023.5
M. Slavkova
{"title":"Women’s evangelical activities and church growth in Romani communities","authors":"M. Slavkova","doi":"10.3828/rost.2023.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/rost.2023.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52533,"journal":{"name":"Romani Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47264318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romani StudiesPub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.3828/rost.2023.6
E. Marushiakova, V. Popov
{"title":"Roma women activism under communist rule: The cases of the USSR (the 1920s and 1930s) and Bulgaria (1960s and 1970s)","authors":"E. Marushiakova, V. Popov","doi":"10.3828/rost.2023.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/rost.2023.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52533,"journal":{"name":"Romani Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41329084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}