Gypsy/Roma diasporas. A comparative perspective* * This article was presented at a workshop on Politico-Religious Diasporas, chaired by Steven Vartovek, at the sixth Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Krakow July 2000. I wish to thank the participants of the workshop, Huon Wardle and two anonymous reviewers for Social Anthropology for their useful comments. 1 It's most popular and persistent incarnation is the dichotomy 'authentic Romany' versus 'fake drop-outs' which in recent years has underlain the discourse on so-called 'authentic' and 'bogus' asylum-seekers (Clark and Campbell 2000). 2 The names 'Jarana' and 'La Fresneda' are pseudonyms, as are the names of all people in the article.

SUMMARYIn this article we, as informant and anthropologist, attempt to write ethnography together and to propose a collaborative and egalitarian anthropology. We start from the awareness that ethnographic knowledge is made by ethnographers and informants, and should be owned by both. We write together and separately, about each other and about ourselves, and describe a friendship that started 20 years ago, when Liria, a Spanish Gitana (Gypsy/Roma) first opened her home to Paloma, a non‐Gitana anthropologist. We reflect on our relationship and what it tells us about life in contemporary Spain, and about anthropology and its future.

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