Cultural Intimacy and Othering through Narrative Culture: Folktales about the Finnish Roma

Stark, Eija

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“…Our method has been to approach the recording and the conversation in several ways: analysing the audio and the transcribed conversation, undertaking collaboration with Roma representatives, and comparing situations in the interview with similar, approximately contemporary experiences told by other Roma individuals whom we interviewed in our former project "At the Outskirts of the City -Swedish-Roma Life History and Camps Sites from the Twentieth Century" (Fernstål & Hyltén-Cavallius 2017, 2018.…”

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“I was born here”: Positioning by Origin and Citizenship in a Conversation between a Collector and a Roma Family in the early 1950s, Sweden

Hyltén-Cavallius

Fernstål

2021

Ethnologia Europaea

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This article examines an audio recording with a Roma family made by the collector Arvid Andersson in Sweden, in the early 1950s. The aim of this article is to unfold this jointly constructed conversation between the collector and the Roma family members. The analysis of the conversation shows a delicate interplay between the Roma family and the interviewer, and we especially stress the agency of the family in the process of negotiating belonging, challenging a discourse about the Roma as a passive group merely subjected to discrimination and stereotyping. The foreignness of the Roma was continuously stressed, while the Roma opposed being positioned as foreigners and tried to clarify that they did belong in Sweden and contributed to society. 

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“…Roma voices and experiences, as in much historiography concerning Roma groups over time, were filtered through the collector's point of view and his or her purpose (cf. Marsh & Strand 2006;Stark 2018). The sources are often one-sided, prejudiced and filled with misconceptions (cf.…”

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“I was born here”: Positioning by Origin and Citizenship in a Conversation between a Collector and a Roma Family in the early 1950s, Sweden

Hyltén-Cavallius

Fernstål

2021

Ethnologia Europaea

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Respectable and Masculine Livelihoods: Roma Stories of Horse Trading

Ahlbeck

2022

Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960

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Until the mid-twentieth century, the Finnish Roma supported themselves by small-scale itinerant trade, such as peddling and market trade. This chapter traces Roma’s strategies of survival in the first half of the twentieth century by analyzing interviews with Finnish Roma. The analysis demonstrates how horse trading carried out by men was experienced as the most important, profitable, and respectable form of livelihood. Women’s versatile work tasks also required trust and aid from the majority population, yet both women and men emphasized the worth of the masculine form of livelihood. The chapter investigates in detail how gender operated in narratives of horse trading and how the construction of a masculine self was taking place in certain spatial realms, like the marketplace.

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Stories on the food-begging Roma

Stark¹

2020

Food Identities at Home and on the Move

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Cultural Intimacy and Othering through Narrative Culture: Folktales about the Finnish Roma

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

“I was born here”: Positioning by Origin and Citizenship in a Conversation between a Collector and a Roma Family in the early 1950s, Sweden

“I was born here”: Positioning by Origin and Citizenship in a Conversation between a Collector and a Roma Family in the early 1950s, Sweden

Respectable and Masculine Livelihoods: Roma Stories of Horse Trading

Stories on the food-begging Roma

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