O mundo passa. Uma etnografia dos calon e suas relações com os brasileiros

Ferrari, Florência

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“…People constantly scrutinize each other's acts, and individual performance is central for reproduction of ‘Gypsyness’ (Ferrari ; Gay y Blasco ; ). Individuals are expected to adhere to certain rules, conform to behavioural requirements, and express proper deportment, all of which are gender‐, age‐, and relation‐specific.…”

Section: A Calon's Worldmentioning

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“…Crucially, a Calon cannot fully be considered a man ( homem ) without being married and having his own household. The wedding is the event after which married men and women become evaluated differently in relation to Calon values (Ferrari : 238; Fotta : 215). The money and dwelling that a couple possess are prerequisites for the making of manliness as contingent on the creation of ‘money on the street’ ( dinheiro na rua ) and on hosting others.…”

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‘Only the dead don't make the future’: Calon lives between non‐Gypsies and death

Fotta

2019

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This article argues that the instability of social arrangements, openness in economic strategies, and presentist orientations found among the Calon Gypsies (Ciganos) in Bahia are not to be attributed to uncertainty originating in destabilizations of Calon social life through encompassment and penetration by the dominant Juron (non-Gypsy) society. It shows instead that Calon cultivate exploitable uncertainty and maintain forward thrust in their lives through a form of self-discipline sometimes described as 'making the future', which distinguishes them from both Jurons and those Calon who have died. This orientation, which highlights the unsettlement of existing arrangements in order to create new opportunities and alter one's position, is inseparable from Calon conceptions regarding generations and gender. It provides a performative background against which Calon can demonstrate attributes of social persons and allows for 'enchaining' people through recomposing relationships.We were waiting at a rest area on the Brazilian highway connecting southern Bahia with Salvador where Pancho 1 had arranged to meet with his son's lawyer. Pancho, his wife Celma, his brother-in-law Lúcio, and I had just got into a used VW Gol. Silent, deep in our own thoughts, we were watching the lawyer leaving the parking lot in a new black Chevrolet Astra when Lúcio, who was sitting in the back with me, commented, 'You should not have given that car to the lawyer' . 'I will buy a new one and a better one' , Pancho replied. Celma turned to her uncle from the passenger seat and asserted: 'Only the dead don't make the future' ('Só os mortos não fazem o futuro').By then, I had known this family of Calon Gypsies for more than fifteen months, and I did not share their confidence. I had seen how much effort was involved in moneylending, their main mode of making a living, and how often they had to accept defaults. Their living arrangements seemed even less stable and reliable. Between July 2009, when Pancho's son was imprisoned for a conflict with a non-Gypsy, and October of the same year, when the above episode took place, the family changed locations three times. In the meantime, they had to sell their houses, to borrow money from other Calon, and to interrupt the wedding plans of Pancho's younger son. The Astra was given to the lawyer as payment for his services. Pancho was still paying

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Section: A Calon's Worldmentioning

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Section: A Calon's Worldmentioning

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‘Only the dead don't make the future’: Calon lives between non‐Gypsies and death

Fotta

2019

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…A família é a instituição máxima para os ciganos, constatação que pode ser lida nos textos de Campos (1999), Goldfarb (2013), Fonseca (1996), Ferrari (2010), Santanna (1983, entre outros pesquisadores que estudaram grupos ciganos no Brasil. Entre os ciganos, estes laços podem ser atados pelos casamentos, que ocorrem preferencialmente dentro do grupo, sendo, preferencialmente, endogâmicos.…”

Section: Família Calon: Começo E Continuidade Das Ralações Geracionaisunclassified

A Infância Calon: Notas Sobre O “Ser Criança” Entre Os Ciganos No Vale Do Mamanguape- Paraíba/Brasil

Goldfarb

Monteiro

2017

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Este trabalho traz reflexões sobre a concepção de infância no grupo Calon residente no litoral norte da Paraíba-Brasil. Trata-se de um estudo de caso, com base bibliográfica em antropologia da criança, etnicidade e grupos ciganos. O trabalho de campo foi realizado a partir de observação participante, juntamente com algumas técnicas de pesquisa: entrevista com roteiro semiestruturado com adultos e crianças, grupo focal e desenhos temáticos com as crianças, entre os anos de 2013 e 2014. A pesquisa permitiu conhecer a dinâmica da vida cotidiana entre os Calon, a partir de suas crianças e de seus adultos. Sobretudo voltou-se para compreender a concepção da infância e as formas de educação/aprendizagem que fazem parte dos processos sociais de crescer e se reconhecer Calon.

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“…However, akin to Rosaldo's description of Ilongot, it shows how among the Calon Gypsies of Bahia, personhood can only be understood through taking into account the native view of personal development, and how people's interactions, as well as their views of themselves and situations, are patterned and described through emotions. Such analytical focus on emotions in understanding ways people sustain, express and evaluate relationships has also characterised the work of ethnographers writing about Calon in other parts of Brazil: Florencia Ferrari (2010) has argued that affective flows and manifestations of emotions produce effects on the world -most importantly, by fabricating relationships among Calon -while Márcio Vilar (2011Vilar ( , 2016 has analysed how grieving and remembering (or forgetting) as ritual actualisations of socially recognised emotions give continuity and recognisable ethos to Calon social life (see also Gay y Blasco 2004;Theodosiou and Brazzabeni 2011).…”

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‘They say he is a man now’: a tale of fathers and sons

Fotta¹

2016

Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies

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Journal of Latin American Cultural StudiesTravesia ISSN: 1356-9325 (Print) 1469-9575 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjla20 'They say he is a man now': a tale of fathers and sonsSimilarly to other minimalist societies lacking formalised social structures and offices, emotions play a central role in sustaining, expressing and evaluating relationships among the Calon Gypsies of Bahia. An analysis of emotions therefore has to take into account Calon views of personal transformation and how people's interactions, as well as their views of themselves and situations, are patterned and described through emotions. The article is centred on three episodes that focus on the father-son relationship and are marked by strong affective ties. Love, fear and anger for one's father or son, and a memory of care and sharing, are set against a world that is perceived as hostile and underpin the Calon institution of revenge. This article describes how, through the performance of culturally intelligible forms of violence, actors in specific social positions manipulate and create social order. As this order is unambiguously gendered, the article explores the making of a gendered, specifically masculine subjectivity: how through an affective relationship with others, one becomes and remains a man (homem).

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O mundo passa. Uma etnografia dos calon e suas relações com os brasileiros

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‘Only the dead don't make the future’: Calon lives between non‐Gypsies and death

‘Only the dead don't make the future’: Calon lives between non‐Gypsies and death

A Infância Calon: Notas Sobre O “Ser Criança” Entre Os Ciganos No Vale Do Mamanguape- Paraíba/Brasil

‘They say he is a man now’: a tale of fathers and sons

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