This book, based on three years of participant research among rural Pakistani groups, provides the first detailed description in print of Asian gypsies.
This book, based on three years of participant research among rural Pakistani groups, provides the first detailed description in print of Asian gypsie...
Social scientists have generally remained impervious to a major economic and cultural adaptation--namely, the peripatetic lifestyle--although this adaptation has been an integral part of developments within the socioeconomic and cultural networks that social scientists study. This lack of interest derives perhaps from the ambiguous integration of peripatetics into these networks as well as the often negatively charged constructs -"Gypsies," "outsiders," or "marginal others"--imposed on peripatetics by dominant cultures. As "peddlers of the strange" to borrow a phrase from Clifford Geertz,...
Social scientists have generally remained impervious to a major economic and cultural adaptation--namely, the peripatetic lifestyle--although this ada...
