The Heroic Present: Life Among the Gypsies
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Belgian-born Jan Yoors, who would grow up to become an acclaimed artist, photographer, and writer, ran away from home at age twelve, in 1934, to join a kumpania (band) of Roma, or Gypsies, near Antwerp. He spent several years traveling with the Roma and returned to the group for extended periods in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1967, he published The Gypsies, a first-hand account of life among the Roma by one of the few outsiders ever to be accepted into their ranks. His writings, at once clear-sighted and warmhearted, detached and engaged, demonstrate an acute understanding of Romani life and remai...
Belgian-born Jan Yoors, who would grow up to become an acclaimed artist, photographer, and writer, ran away from home at age twelve, in 1934, to join a kumpania (band) of Roma, or Gypsies, near Antwerp. He spent several years traveling with the Roma and returned to the group for extended periods in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1967, he published The Gypsies, a first-hand account of life among the Roma by one of the few outsiders ever to be accepted into their ranks. His writings, at once clear-sighted and warmhearted, detached and engaged, demonstrate an acute understanding of Romani life and remain required reading for any study of the Roma. The Heroic Present brings together excerpts from The Gypsies and from Yoors's unpublished works with photographs of the Roma taken by Yoors over more than forty years--in France, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Greece, and India--that reveal the daily fabric of life: intimate rituals of birth, marriage, and death and large, joyful celebrations. Also included is an essay be renowned Roma historian Ian Hancock that elucidates the position occupied by the Roma, notably the Lovari Romanies, with whom Yoors lived. Comprehensive and vivid, visual and literary, The Heroic Present is an unequaled portrait of daily life among the Gypsies, revealing a rich culture that has endured for centuries.
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