List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
- Book Structure
- Applying Anthropology
PART I: THE WASTELAND
Chapter 1. Defining the Field: People and Practice in an Indeterminate Place
- Boundaries and Meeting Places
- Boundaries and Gypsy Identity
- Schematic Understandings
- Framing Interactions
- Becoming a Person - Embodiedness
- Speaking and the Embodiment of Language
- Summation
Chapter 2. Reaching an Understanding - Methods and Analysis
- Boundaries and the Research Process
- People, Culture and Organizations
- Ethnography at Home
- The Search for the Subject Matter
- Self and Other - More Assumed Boundaries
- Engagement in the Field
- Genealogies and Kinship Charts
- Tales of Everyday Life and Conflicting Moral Frames
- The Significance of Stories The Ethics of Representation
Chapter 3. The Past and Present Making of Teesside: Building a Place in the World, Finding a Place Amongst People
- Arriving Gypsies on Teesside
- The Sites
- A Question of Culture
- Putting Gypsies in Their Place
PART II: THE FIRE
Chapter 4. Stories and Teaching Gypsiness
- An Introduction
- The Intersubjective Process of Socialisation
- Another Introduction
- Learning to Speak - Social Aesthetics and the Context of Socialisation
- Social Aesthetics and Socialisation - the Role of Stories
- Stories and Teaching Gypsy Children
- Telling Stories and Enacting Stories
- The Real World of Stories vs. the Fictional World of Books
- Stories - Real Life or Fiction?
- Stories and Teaching Morality
- 'Fictional' vs. 'Real-Life' Moralities
- Summary
Chapter 5. Stories and the Telling of Family
- Parenting and Teaching
- How to Be
- Family as a Collection of Stories
- A Sense of One's Beginnings
- Repeated Story Themes
- What's in a Name?
Chapter 6. Home is Where the Heart Is
- Homing In
- Telling Family Together
- Individual and Family - the Interplay of 'I' and 'We'
- A Variety of Possible Stories
- Where in the World?
- Conclusion
Chapter 7. The Negotiation of Moral Ambivalence
- What's In and What's Out - or Who Belongs and Who Doesn't?
- Making a Place in the World - Rhetoric and Meaning
- Rhetoric, Symbols and Values - Introducing the Inchoate Families
- Real and Imagined - the Idea of a Moral Community
- Rhetoric and the Creation of Social Space
Part II: Summary
PART III: THE DARK
Part III: Introduction
Chapter 8. The Mediated Moral Imagination
- The Character of the Gypsy
- An Unfolding Story
- The Story Continues
- Telling the Story
- 'Our' Way - the Various Faces of 'We' and 'They'
- Discussion
Chapter 9. A Meeting of Minds?
- Introducing the Characters
- Conflicts and Contradictions - the Meeting's Internal Processes
- Balancing Individuals and Institutions - How Groups are Made and Remade
- Adopting Roles, Assuming Responsibilities and Assessing Behaviour
- Making a Metaphorical Wasteland
- Discussion
Chapter 10. Managing Multiple Perspectives
- Finding a Point of View - Placing People in a Cultural Landscape
- Enacting and Re-enacting Storylines
- Shifting Perspectives and Enacting Situations
- Conclusions
Conclusions
Appendix 1. Kinship Charts
Appendix 2. Newspaper Cuttings
Bibliography