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5%OFFAlaina Lemon - Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism - 9780822324935 - V9780822324935
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Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism

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Description for Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism Paperback. Since Tsarist times, Roma in Russia (known to others as Gypsies) have been portrayed as rebels, isolated from society and excluded from mainstream history. This book examines how Roma themselves have negotiated such dualities, in both everyday interactions and in stage performances. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 b&w photographs, 1 table, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJ; AN; HBTB; JFC; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Since tsarist times, Roma in Russia have been portrayed as both rebellious outlaws and free-spirited songbirds—in each case, as if isolated from society. In Soviet times, Russians continued to harbor these two, only seemingly opposed, views of “Gypsies,” exalting their songs on stage but scorning them on the streets as liars and cheats. Alaina Lemon’s Between Two Fires examines how Roma themselves have negotiated these dual images in everyday interactions and in stage performances.
Lemon’s ethnographic study is based on extensive fieldwork in 1990s Russia and focuses on Moscow Romani Theater actors as well as Romani traders and metalworkers. Drawing ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822324935
SKU
V9780822324935
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Alaina Lemon
Alaina Lemon is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Reviews for Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism
“The highlight of Lemon’s book is her discussion of the archival record of a Lovari Rom’s trial and the interpretation of it by his descendants, to whom she read the material. . . . [S]he is imaginative and insightful in her analysis of Pushkin. . . . [A] valuable contribution. . . .” - Judith Okely, Times Literary Supplement “Lemon ... Read more

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