Janet Keet-Black

Gypsies of Britain

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the history of this lifestyle, looking at how Gypsies have maintained their distinctive culture and how they have adapted to the twenty-first century, and focusses on a range of traditional Gypsy occupations including harvesting, horse-dealing, fortune-telling and rat-catching.

Produktdetails

• Shire Library
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 56
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 149mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 132g
• ISBN-13: 9780747812364
• ISBN-10: 0747812365
• Artikelnr.: 36597202

Autorenporträt

Janet Keet-Black is a founder member of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society and is Editor of 'Romany Routes'. She is the author of several Romany-related articles and 'Hidden Photographs of a Hidden People' (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Travelling Groups in Britain
Travelling Patterns and Abodes
Earning a Living
Evangelism and War Work
The Twenty-first Century
Further Information
Index