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Romani Foodways: Gypsy Culinary Culture |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Ian Hancock |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 3,292 Words, 19,595 Characters |
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There is no single cohesive Romani culture but instead there are many. While all Gypsy populations retain a more or less shared cultural and linguistic core, their fragmentation after they reached Europe seven centuries ago has led to emergence of many distinct groups. Thus, no description of the life and customs of any one group can possibly hold true for all Romani people.
In the mid to late thirteenth-century, the Romani migration arrived in Europe. Half of their number dispersed throughout the continent, reaching every country in northern and western Europe by about 1500, but the other half was enslaved in the Balkans until the mid-nineteenth century. While Roma in south eastern Europe were being thus held in bondage, anti-Gypsy laws elsewhere, resulting partly from the misconcep...
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...ce (social harmony) depend upon his maintenance of the requirements of Romanipen in all its aspects. Disharmony here can only lead to loss of identity--and acceptance--as a Rom. It is this barrier between the clean and the polluted that, more than any other aspect of Romani culture except perhaps language, keeps the Romani people intact and distinct from all non-Gypsy populations around them.
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