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Volume 9
New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
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Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion
The Making of Market, Mercy and Meaning Amongst the Gitanos of El Rastro
Marianne Blom Brodersen
Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4. license with support from Nord University.
388 pages, 16 ills., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-771-7 $145.00/£107.00 / Hb / Published (November 2024)
Description
The Gitanos of el Rastro carry an ‘ontology of simultaneity’ as self-employed traders and Pentecostal practitioners in Madrid. This makes the Spanish Romani be considered as both a part of and apart from mainstream society. This book is an anthropological account of a group of middle and upper-class Gitanos and their ways of creating a ‘society within society’ based upon distinct cultural, moral and ideological values, notions and practices. The study renders a comprehensive perspective on social processes of classification, stratification, ‘othering’ and the role of ‘strangers’ in society and how these processes unfold in the interface between social, ritual and economic life on a local to global scale.
Marianne Blom Brodersen is a social anthropologist at Nord University, Norway. She has done research in Cuba and California, and more recently in Spain amongst urban Pentecostal Gitanos, Andalucian anarchists and rural villagers. She does ethnographic/phenomenological research and anthropological theorizing on rituals and their transformative powers, Pentecostalism, emotions and embodiment, artivism, alternative social organization, and social differentiation, "othering" and dehumanization.
Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologySociology
Area: Southern Europe
Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion by Marianne Blom Brodersen is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Nord University.
Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB
OA ISBN: 978-1-80539-773-1
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