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  The Gypsy Lore Society
It refers to many aspects of their situation in the Chilean society, and also it focuses on the changes that the "Rom Chilean" society is undergoing nowadays in many aspects of its culture, such as gender relations, nomadic traits, acculturation, social integration, and ethnic identity.
The celebration of the Kakava/Hiderlez feast by the Gypsies in Eastern Thrace and Istanbul is analyzed on two main planes, in the borders of the community (the Gypsies) and in the general parameters of the society in which they live.
The modifications and the transformations of the celebration of Kakava/Hiderlez among the Gypsies in Eastern Thrace are connected to the correlation between the religious and the secular in the life of contemporary Turkey.
www.gypsyloresociety.org /conf07abstracts.html   (11053 words)

  
  Gypsy Lore Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gypsy Lore Society was founded in Great Britain in 1888 to unite persons interested in the history and lore of Gypsies and rovers and to establish closer contacts among scholars studying aspects of such cultures.
The Society's archives are held at the University of Liverpool.
The Society has established the Victor Weybright Archives of Gypsy Studies, specializing in recent scholarly work on Gypsy, Traveler and related studies, for the benefit of researchers and students.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gypsy_Lore_Society   (214 words)

  
 Articles by Country
Winsteadt, E.O. "An Algerian Gypsy Prophetess," in Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society 31:77 (1952).
"On the Language of the Gypsies of Qainat (in Eastern Persia)" in Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society 10:439-55 (1914).
"Gypsies in the Land of Israel," Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 37 (1958):69-70.
www.domresearchcenter.com /resources/body2.html   (1191 words)

  
 The Pariah Syndrome - Chapter XIX
"The Gypsy conference at Bucharest," Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 3rd ser., 13(4):182-190.
"The Gypsies in Walachia and Moldavia." Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 3rd ser., 20:58-72.
Gipsies and Gipsy lore in the Pennsylvania mountains.
www.geocities.com /Paris/5121/pariah-ch19.htm   (2004 words)

  
 General Works
"Gypsy Acrobats in Ancient Africa." Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society,1, II, 1980, 4:193-203, 288-291.
"Gypsies from India - from the Indus to the Mediterranean." KURI - DRJournal, Vol.
"A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of the Nawar or Zutt, The Nomad Smiths of Palestine." Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, Vol.
www.domresearchcenter.com /resources/body.html   (594 words)

  
 Gypsy Lore - Rom History, Fortune Telling, Holocaust
Gypsies believe that within their own there are certain ones who posses great power through the ability to perform magic with their special range of knowledge.
After the gypsies realized what was going on they fought back with their bare hands but they were no match for the clubs and guns of the SS.
As gypsies could not read or write, many were not registered at the camps and if they were registered, a simple 'Z" was placed where their name should be.
www.gypsyadvice.com /gypsy_lore.htm   (2503 words)

  
 Subject
The most complete list of gypsies sentenced to transportation appears in "Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775", by David Dobson,1984,Baltimore, MD Genealogical Publishing Co. includes 16 Scottish Travelers forming 3groups sentenced in 1682, 1715 and 1739.
Gypsy studies (see Gypsy Lore Society internet notes) say there are similarities in Gypsy Romani language to Turkish.
I wrote "The Romany and Traveler Family History Society, was given the information that after the Vagrancy Act of 1597, gypsies were transported to the colonies to rid England of "incorriglble rogues" and to provide forced labor.
foclark.tripod.com /gypsy/gypsydeport.htm   (493 words)

  
 Gypsy Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The ideology underlying the persecution of the Gypsies is discussed by Friedlander and Lewy.
Klamper, E., "Persecution and Annihilation of Roma and Sinti in Austria, 1938-1945," Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society 5:3.2 (1993), pp.
Lípa, J., "The Fate of Gypsies in Czechoslovakia under Nazi Domination" in M. Berenbaum, ed., A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis (New York, 1990), pp.
www.aihgs.com /gypsy.htm   (370 words)

  
 Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling (paperback book) by Charles Godfrey Leland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The gypsy is a curious blend of elemental pagan and Christian, primitive and shrewd, bucolic and bestial.
Most of what we now know about them we owe to the Gypsy Lore Society, of which Charles Godfrey Leland was a founder and first president.
Gypsies have been for at least a thousand years the international "purveyors" of witchcraft, magic, and medicines with most of the world's peasantry in the course of their own long westward trek.
www.sevenrays.com /catalog/describe?0806511982   (223 words)

  
 Dzeno Association
The Society’s goals include promotion of the study of Roma, Traveler, and analogous peripatetic cultures worldwide; dissemination of accurate information aimed at increasing understanding of these cultures in their diverse forms; and establishment of closer contacts among scholars studying any aspects of these cultures.
The Society is one of the most important authorities on Roma studies, and publishes an international and interdisciplinary journal, Romani Studies, four times a year.
In addition, the 'Gypsy Lore Society' is interested in the promotion of Roma studies, and has created the The Victor Weybright Archives, a collection specialized in scholarly materials available for use by researchers.
www.dzeno.cz /?c_id=8358   (300 words)

  
 Gypsy Stories & Lore & History - Story-Lovers SOS Story Lists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Gypsy storytellers usually spread the word of any large events that occur on the continent during their travels.
And when this gypsy played, then people would stop working, children would stop playing and the old would leave their fires and all would come and dance to his tunes.
This Gypsy version is one of several folktales and songs published by Dr. Franz Miklosich in 1874 in Romani and Latin.
www.story-lovers.com /listsgypsystories.html   (1481 words)

  
 Directory - Society: Ethnicity: Romani: Cultural Studies
Gypsy Collections at University of Liverpool  · Gypsy Lore Society Archives and Scott Macfie Collection - books, manuscripts, sound recordings, press cuttings, photographs - a major resource for Gypsy and Romani studies.
The Gypsy Lore Society  · cached · An international interdisciplinary association of persons interested in Gypsy Studies--the languages, cultures, and histories of the various groups known as Gypsies and Travelers.
Scholarship and the Gypsy Struggle: Commitment in Romani Studies  · cached · Book edited by Thomas Acton, leaves behind the patronising racism of experts in "Gypsy Lore" and locates itself in the problems identified by Romani people themselves.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=110290   (378 words)

  
 Romani (Gypsies)Links
The Gypsy Collections include several thousand photographs - prints in their original albums, glass negatives and lantern slides - of Gypsies in various countries, with an emphasis on Britain and Ireland.
The Gypsy collections at the University of Liverpool comprise the Gypsy Lore Society Archive, and the Scott Macfie Gypsy Collection of books, manuscripts, prints, photographs, sound recordings and press cuttings.
The main historical focus of the collections is the period from the mid 19th to the mid 20th century.
www.artnetwork.com /Jaisalmerayo/links.html   (275 words)

  
 Special Collections
The Gypsy Lore Society was founded in May 1888, including amongst its founding members the explorer Sir Richard F. Burton, Whistler's biographer Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Archduke Joseph of Austria-Hungary.
On her death the Gypsy Lore Society was dissolved, but the name passed in 1989 to the American Chapter, which had been formed in 1977 and which continues to publish a fifth series of the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society.
For the Gypsy Lore Society Archive the arrangement quite neatly reflected the activities of the Society, arranged into groups of society correspondence (incoming and outgoing, letterbooks and loose), administrative material and members' papers.
www.la-hq.org.uk /directory/record/r199911/article2.html   (2114 words)

  
 Gypsy Lore Society - Definition, explanation
The Gypsy Lore Society was founded in Great Britain in 1888 to unite persons interested in the history and lore of Gypsies and rovers and to establish closer contacts among scholars studying aspects of such cultures.
The Society's archives are held at the University of Liverpool.
The Society has established the Victor Weybright Archives of Gypsy Studies, specializing in recent scholarly work on Gypsy, Traveler and related studies, for the benefit of researchers and students.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/gy/gypsy_lore_society.php   (406 words)

  
 CONGRESSO-ESTUDOS-CIGANOS
Gypsy Lore Society, a principal associação internacional sobre estudos ciganos, celebra a apresenta edição em Granada.
O Departamento de Antropologia Social apresenta o Congresso Gypsy Lore Society, 2005 Annual Meeting and Conference on Gypsy Studies (Congresso sobre Estudos Ciganos), que se desenvolverá os dias 8, 9 e 10 de setembro na Faculdade de Filosofia e Letras da Universidade de Granada.
A Gypsy Lore Society, associação internacional dedicada aos estudos ciganos e errantes, foi fundada em Grã-Bretanha em 1888 e desde 1989 tem sua sede em Estados Unidos.
www.universia.es /html_trad/portada/actualidad/noticia_actualidad_trad/params/anyo/2005/mes/Septiembre/noticia/icedb.html   (233 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library Labour History: Special Topics
Gypsy life in Dutch childrens' books 1825-1990 The imagery of gypsy life in a wide range of Dutch childrens' books collected by the anthropologist dr. Jean Kommers from Nijmegen University.
Gross - International Otto Gross Society Gross (1877-1920) was an Austrian psychiatrist and anarchist, later communist who advocated an anti-authoritarian, repression-free upbringing, the emancipation from patriarchal, hierarchical structures in the context of family, marriage, career, etc., and the emancipation of women in particular.
SHOT The Society for the History of Technology was formed in 1958 to encourage the study of the development of technology and its relations with society and culture.
www.iisg.nl /~w3vl/specialtopics.html   (5532 words)

  
 Iranica.com - GYPSY
Idem, "A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of the Nawar or Zutt: The Nomad Smiths of Palestine," Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, N.S. pp.
by Gypsy Lore Society as Monograph 3, Edinburgh, 1914).
John Sampson, "The Gypsies of Persia," Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, N.S. pp.
www.iranica.com /articles/v11f4/v11f4054b.html   (3121 words)

  
 The Gypsy Lore Society
The Gypsy Lore Society, an international association of persons interested in Gypsy and Traveler Studies, was founded in Great Britain in 1888.
Its goals include promotion of the study of Gypsy, Traveler, and analogous peripatetic cultures worldwide; dissemination of accurate information aimed at increasing understanding of these cultures in their diverse forms; and establishment of closer contacts among scholars studying any aspects of these cultures.
The Society has also established the Victor Weybright Archives of Gypsy Studies, specializing in recent scholarly work on Gypsy, Traveler and related studies, for the benefit of researchers and students.
www.gypsyloresociety.org   (327 words)

  
 Gypsy Vanner Horses at Blarney Stone Acres | Gypsy Background and Culture
The Gypsy Lore Society is an international association of persons interested in Gypsy and Traveler Studies.
Its goals include promotion of the study of Gypsy, Traveler, and analogous peripatetic cultures worldwide.
History of the Appleby Fair - Learn the secrets of intoxicating elixirs...the meaning of the Tarot...and, when night falls, perhaps you might care to visit the Campfire and listen to the storytellers recount their gypsy legends.
www.blarneystoneacres.com /res_gypsies.htm   (114 words)

  
 The Gypsy Lore Society
Romani Studies is published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society.
Series 5 of the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society and Romani Studies is due to be added to the database in May 2007.
Back issues for series 5, volumes 1-15 of the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society and Romani Studies (continuing Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society) are available from the Gypsy Lore Society at $6 per issue to Gypsy Lore Society members, $12 to non-members.
www.gypsyloresociety.org /journal.htm   (508 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Ethnicity: Romani: Cultural Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Gypsy and Traveler Groups in North America - Adapted from the introduction to "Gypsies and Travelers in North America: An Annotated Bibliography."
The Gypsy Lore Society - An international interdisciplinary association of persons interested in Gypsy Studies--the languages, cultures, and histories of the various groups known as Gypsies and Travelers.
Scholarship and the Gypsy Struggle: Commitment in Romani Studies - Book edited by Thomas Acton, leaves behind the patronising racism of experts in "Gypsy Lore" and locates itself in the problems identified by Romani people themselves.
dmoz.org /Society/Ethnicity/Romani/Cultural_Studies   (415 words)

  
 CURRICULUM VITA- Carol Silverman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
"Gypsies in the Urban Landscape," Geography Department Colloquium, University of Oregon, January 1983.
Co-director of the symposium, New Political Cultures: Economics, Gender, and Society in Eastern Europe, University of Oregon, November 1991.
Assistant Director, Symposium on Hungarian Culture and Society, University of Oregon, Spring 1984.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~anthro/silverman.html   (5808 words)

  
 Dora E. Yates Correspondence, 1856-1951, bulk 1936-1946
Primarily letters of University of Liverpool librarian and secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora E. Yates, to Alfred E. Hamill of Lake Forest, Illinois, 1936-1946.
In 1963 the university recognized Yates' scholarly achievements with an honorary Litt.D. Yates continued to write and to support the Gypsy Lore Society until her death in 1974 at the age of ninety-five.
Yates' letters deal largely with Gypsy Lore Society news, library matters at the University of Liverpool, book collecting, her personal affairs, and the activities and well-being of Hamill.
www.newberry.org /collections/FindingAids/yates/Yatesb.html   (897 words)

  
 SC&A: Fairs - Gypsy Lore Society Archive - University of Liverpool
Many of these are portrayed in the archive of press cuttings, letters and photographs built up by the Gypsy Lore Society between 1907 and 1974, including fairs which no longer survive.
The autumn fair at Brough, also in Cumbria, has a charter date of 1330, and these two, the largest and most popular in the North of England, were frequently visited by the members of the Gypsy Lore Society.
In the South of England, the GLS photographer Fred Shaw recorded Gypsies at Barnet Fair (Hertfordshire), Mitcham Fair (Surrey) and at the Epsom Derby.
sca.lib.liv.ac.uk /collections/gypsy/appleby.htm   (461 words)

  
 roma2_25   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This is a controversial book about Romany lifestyle and their traditional occupations in the United States, written by a deputy sheriff and an associate professor with the Police Training Institute at the University of Illinois.
SALO, M. “Gypsy Immigration to the United States.” Papers from the Sixth and Seventh Annual Meetings, Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, New York, 1986, pp.
This is a collection of multidisciplinary studies about the American Kalderas, authored two years after the formation of the North American Chapter of the Gypsy Lore Society.
www.osi.hu /rpp/biblio/roma2_25.html   (416 words)

  
 Vita
Papers from the Fourth and Fifth Annual Meetings of the Gypsy Lore Society, pp.
Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, 6,4 (Autumn 1983), 1,4.
"Gypsy Studies in the Far East." Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, 3,3 (Summer 1980), 1,6.
homepages.utoledo.edu /dnemeth/vita.html   (2448 words)

  
 roma2_1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A Gypsy Bibliography of All Recent Books, Pamphlets, Articles, Broadsheets, Theses and Dissertations Pertaining to Gypsies and Other Travellers that the Author is Aware of at the Time of the Printing.
According to the introduction by H.A. de Boer, the Minister of Cultural Affairs, Recreation and Social Welfare, this bibliography was underwritten by the Dutch to help make the literature on gypsies more accessible to those who work with gypsies.
Gypsies and the Holocaust: A Bibliography and Introductory Essay.
www2.soros.org /fmp2/html/roma2_1.html   (596 words)

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