October 21st, 2010 / 8:08 am
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Kyle Minor
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Geography Thursdays #5: Gypsies, Romanies, and Travelers
Gypsy/Romany/Traveler Photographs by Lyn Smith, from the DX Collection
How do you study a people who don’t have a fixed national home, about whom there is no scholarly consensus about how to define the object of study, and who largely don’t want to be studied in the first place? That’s the difficult task faced by David J. Nemeth, ethnographer, “radical geographer,” and curator of the DX collection at the Carlson Library of the University of Toledo, where you can peruse photographs, video and audio recordings, blogs, and bibliographies related to the study of Gypsies, Romanies, and Travelers.
This post is a nice change of pace, thematically, around here.
Time of the Gypsies is a really really really good movie.
There’s a great photographer who has been going out and photographing Lithuanian Gypsies for the last decade. The government has tore down some of their houses. It’s really a fucked up situation. Here’s his site: http://www.andrewmiksys.com/index.php?/andrew-miksys/baxt/
Thanks for leading me to a fine site.