Ethnologie und Tsiganologie. Warum studieren wir „überrollte" Kulturen?

Gypsy Studies (in German: Tsiganologie) on the one side have a long tradition since the 18th century, on the other side it is still difficult to define it between social or cultural anthropology (in German: Ethnologie) and sociology. The Leipzig Forum Tsiganologische Forschung has collected data which can be explained by a paradigm of order and para-order, two systems of thinking and doing closely connected and interdependent, but in an asymmetric way. comparable with the relation of mother and daughter. Whereas anthropology tries to understand what sometimes is described as the recent losers of the civilization process, Gypsies represent a traditional skill of being marginalized, a certain way of mastering para-orders, which could be relevant for all other "overrolled" communities.