FYI France : Gypsies in France, 1566 - 2011, A Selected Resource List

 
FYI France
http://www.fyifrance.com/gypsybib.htm
File 12.73 -- An FYI France Resource List, by Jack Kessler
Last update: October 17, 2010 -- 264 entries so far, combined total for all files -- this is a work-in-progress, more entries will be added, and suggestions of emendations, additions, eliminations all will be gratefully received via email to kessler@well.com -- also available here at fyifrance.blogspot.com, and via Facebook-Jack Kessler's Wall - http://tinyurl.com/2a9xkxu.

Gypsies in France, 1566 - 2011, A Selected Resource List

Comment ça marche:

* The resources listed below must be "selected" -- because the perennial complaining, by gypsies against the French and by the French against gypsies, goes back very far -- it is a long & uncomfortable & impassioned & fascinating relationship, and it forms a very full & complete & sometimes-tragic, & often-joyful, & nearly-always dramatic, history. There are some in France who have worked hard for a very long time on this, it presents a set of complex issues not easily addressed.

* A few websites will be listed separately at the bottom, here, they being far easier nowadays to find and use than other resources. The other entries are listed in descending order by latest publication date, then alphabetically by author/title -- the chronological order because that seems more useful for understanding a particular culture's development than do arbitrary academic categories such as “history” or “politics”, or equally-arbitrary and increasingly-irrelevant bibliographic boxes distinguishing different “media”, such as filmstrips & movies & dvds & floppies & monographs & print journals & articles of clothing & iphones, all of which appear to be merging digitally now anyway, see,
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/acoustic-fibers-0712.html,
http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/exhibitions.html

* Because a great variety of sources are being used, all pretensions to exact bibliographic description have been abandoned, here -- standardization is attempted and not entirely achieved, but hopefully the data provided at least will help you find the thing -- the indication of a “Cote” is not meant to suggest a unique copy, other institutions may have theirs as well -- universal bibliography still being a chimæra, like universal language (Eco) and universal knowledge (Jeanneney), and hopefully we'll never become so organized and rational and stale as to arrive at any such well-ordered dystopias. The gypsies can help us all with that...

* Sources in various languages are listed, concerning various locales not all in France -- Rajasthan, Slovakia, Romania, Andalusia, etc. -- the goal here being to address the needs of someone interested in “gypsies in France” who also wants to go a little further, to Rajasthan or Slovakia or Romania or al Andaluz or elsewhere, to discover how people there, before they got from there to France or to there from France, live and work and think and play -- a curiosity incumbent upon anyone interested in these people who do not “stay put”, and who get “sent places”, characteristics increasingly typical of all of us now in our Globalizing world.

* This also is a hesitant, tentative, very gun-shy FYI France experiment in "cloud computing"... i.e. Inside this particular “cloud”, will it rain?... and if it does, will the bits get rusty?... And the cross-platform work's not going so well, so far: onthefly mark-up shows readers a moving target, typical of the Internet, please refresh your screens... -- and Google's mini-markup html doesn't like margin settings, so for now I've retreated reluctantly to a famously user-unfriendly format known as Microsoft Word, altho Google doesn’t translate links well from Office2Plus, grrr -- format integration'll get'em every time... please see fyifrance.com for some ongoing generalized discussion of that...

File 1) From 2008 to 2011 --
http://www.fyifrance.com/gypsybib.htm

File 2) Pre-2008 --
http://tinyurl.com/2eb5w3m

File 3) Websites & Current Periodicals, on "Gypsies in France" --
http://tinyurl.com/2c9kj2p

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