Andre’s Reviews > Role of the Romanies: Images and Counter Images of 'Gypsies'/Romanies in European Cultures > Status Update

Why do books with essays always end so abruptly?

<í>Okely goes further, and concludes that both Gypsy and gadjo women harbour similarly idealized self-images and denigrating stereotypes of the 'other:' 'we' are virginal, monogamous, abstinent and sexually in control, 'they' atre prostitutes, promiscuous, available and sexually out of control.

You know what is odd? They constantly use the word "gadje" here, but when reading comments of Sinti online they use the word "chale."

Sayingthe Nazis were not an abberation in European politics But merely Took it's racism to some of its logical Conclusions is Not something everyone would dare or Luke to say.

While the author of this essay (Hancock) makes a good point regarding the difference between academic research on Romani and the many faulty information on them, I would not, unlike him, consider the 2001 study by Gresham as reliable. In that genetic study the Roma populations studied were almost all from Bulgaria, with one from Spain and Lithuania each. Aka, most of Europe is missing in it.

the author states that "romanes" is only an adverb and a noun today only in the form Rumnis, but as far as I am aware "romanes" respectively "romenes" is a noun in the Sinti dialect of Romani and used as a noun in German to name the Romani language.

I do wonder which version of Romani Matras is talking about because in Sinti-Romani the words for flower and grandfather are bluma and babo, nothing like the greek words he suggests. Interesting to read what he wrote about the similarities between anti-semitism/gypsyism and Zionism and Roma nationalism to achieve their goals.

While it is interesting to read that there was a short-lived alternative society to the Gypsy Lore society, I do wonder why this was considered of significance for this book. The alternative to the origin of the word "Gypsy" was one thing, but this seems pointless.

That first chapter was pretty pointless from my POV. It didn't even have anything interesting about the Gypsy Lore society.