Romani Studies

by Yaron Matras (Editor)

The continuing Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society

103 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2016

About the author

Yaron Matras is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester, and Editor of the journal Romani Studies. His involvement with Romani issues began in the advocacy and civil rights arena. Matras was media relations officer to the Roma National Congress from 1988-1995, and founding editor of RomNews, one of the very first advocacy information services on Romani issues. He has worked closely with the Open Society Institute's Roma programmes, is a founding member of the European Academic Network on Romani Studies, and has led several large-scale research projects on Romani language and culture, including an international research consortium on Romani migrations. He is the author of over a dozen books and numerous chapters and articles on Romani language and culture, and speaks the Romani language fluently.

Reviews

[Horus · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a decent selection of interesting and fairly well written articles. The first discusses how the concept of counterfeit Egyptians came into being in England and how a criminal identity was then wrapped up with the term. There are a couple of articles regarding life stories and Roma identity in films and finally an analysis of a version of the Lord’s Prayer in ‘Nubian’ from 1622.