Facets of a Harmony: The Roma and Their Locatedness in Eastern Slovakia - Softcover

Ort, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8024650681 ISBN 13: 9788024650685

Publisher: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic, 2022

Synopsis

A crucial contribution to Romani studies focuses on a single Slovak village to explore universal issues of belonging.
 
In this important contribution to contemporary Romani studies, Jan Ort focuses his anthropological research on a village in eastern Slovakia reputed for the ostensibly seamless coexistence of its ethnically and linguistically heterogeneous inhabitants. Ort offers an ethnographic critique of this idyllic view, showing how historical shifts, as well as the naturalization of inequality and hierarchies, have led to the present situation between the village’s Roma inhabitants and other ethnic populations. However, he also shows examples and methods of subversion and resistance to the village’s current power dynamics. Based primarily on participant observation within Roma families, Ort’s long-term research results in a fascinating book replete with ethnographic descriptions that allow readers to understand local experiences, contexts, and divisions. These insights about the village lead to the key question of the book: Who actually is a local?

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About the Author

Jan Ort is a doctoral student in the Department of Central European studies at Charles University. Phil Jones is a translator of Czech into English.

Edition details

• Publisher: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8024650681
• ISBN 13: 9788024650685
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222