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Romani
Romani language, folklore, ethnography, folk tales, fortune telling, and occult reception.
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GlossaryA shelf-specific slice of the Good Works Glossary for Romani terms.Introduction to Romani TraditionsA critical introduction to the Romani shelf: language, diaspora, persecution, folklore, outsider ethnography, occult reception, and the ethics of reading a people through damaged records.
Folklore and Occult Reception3 pages
Romani folklore and nineteenth-century occult reception, including language study, folk tales, fortune telling, and ethnographic collection.
History, Language and Ethnography12 pages
Older English books on Romani life, history and language, among them Borrow's word-book of English Romani, Simson's Scottish history, Grellmann's 1787 Dissertation and Leland's account of Shelta, the language of the Irish Travellers, kept whole as period witnesses.
Kopernicki — Polish Romani Tales and Songs3 pages
Polish Romani tales and songs that Izydor Kopernicki took down among the Romani of southern Poland in 1875–77, printed in Kraków in 1930 with his French translation, here translated from the Romani, each printed with its Romani text.