2011
DOI: 10.1515/behemoth.2011.005
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Horror Infiniti. Die Zigeuner als Europas Trickster/Horror Infiniti. The Gypsies as Europes Tricksters

Abstract: Abstract:The figure of trickster is well known to all folklore traditions round the world, even among Romani speaking groups as beng (devil) like in the Mediterranean and Balkan context. But the focus of the article concerns the transformation of Roma and other Gypsies themselves into tricksters, which can be shown in three examples: 1) Gypsies in the literature of the Italian Renaissance, 2) Gypsies in the Rumanian Ţsiganiada of the early 19th century and 3) the Gypsy cliché in the ethnography of the 20th cen… Show more

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“…Non-conformity to these expectations becomes an 'epistemic inconceivability' (Scheu 2011) experienced as a moral transgression. It is through such constructions that the Roma are confirmed in the social imaginary as immoral tricksters, a recurrent and obstinate figure (Piasere 2011) that becomes an object of targeted control, repression, and expulsion. In this process, the law has a decisive role.…”
Section: The Gypsy As Immoral and Dangerous Othermentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Non-conformity to these expectations becomes an 'epistemic inconceivability' (Scheu 2011) experienced as a moral transgression. It is through such constructions that the Roma are confirmed in the social imaginary as immoral tricksters, a recurrent and obstinate figure (Piasere 2011) that becomes an object of targeted control, repression, and expulsion. In this process, the law has a decisive role.…”
Section: The Gypsy As Immoral and Dangerous Othermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Just like in the case of nomadism, Italian jurisprudence has often culturalized mendicity as a 'tradition' of the Roma -in particular when children are involved (Ruggiu 2016). But mangel -as it is called in Romani -is only practiced when other sources of income are unavailable or to complement income otherwise insufficient; historical evidence suggests that access to economic wealth results in the abandoning of begging as a livelihood (Piasere 2004).…”
Section: Mendicity (Mendicità or Accattonaggio)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Para Meletínski (1998), Hermes no era más que un trickster deificado; y ya aludimos a las teorías de Niditch (1987) sobre la relación entre los desvalidos y las conductas asimilables al trickster en la Biblia, lo cual hoy sigue reproduciéndose a propósito de etnias como la gitana (Piasere, 2011).…”
Section: Aitana Martos García Y Alberto Martos Garcíaunclassified