Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion

The Making of Market, Mercy and Meaning Amongst the Gitanos of El Rastro

Marianne Blom Brodersen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

388 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-771-7 (ISBN)

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The Gitanos of el Rastro carry an ‘ontology of simultaneity’ as self-employed traders and Pentecostal practitioners in Madrid. This makes the Spanish Romani be considered as both a part of and apart from mainstream society. This book is an anthropological account of a group of middle and upper-class Gitanos and their ways of creating a ‘society within society’ based upon distinct cultural, moral and ideological values, notions and practices. The study renders a comprehensive perspective on social processes of classification, stratification, ‘othering’ and the role of ‘strangers’ in society and how these processes unfold in the interface between social, ritual and economic life on a local to global scale.

Marianne Blom Brodersen is a social anthropologist at Nord University, Norway. She has done research in Cuba and California, and more recently in Spain amongst urban Pentecostal Gitanos, Andalucian anarchists and rural villagers. She does ethnographic/phenomenological research and anthropological theorizing on rituals and their transformative powers, Pentecostalism, emotions and embodiment, artivism, alternative social organization, and social differentiation, "othering" and dehumanization.

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Situating the Field

Part I

Chapter 1. Becoming Part of the Ethnographic Field

Chapter 2. Gitano Ethnic Identity: Between Being and Becoming

Part II: Introduction to the ‘Making of Market’

Chapter 3. Los Comerciantes Del Rastro and the ‘Gitano Niche’

Chapter 4. The Mercurial Merchants of El Rastro

Part III: Introduction to the ‘Making of Mercy’

Chapter 5. Apollo and Dionysus: In the Depths of El Culto

Chapter 6. Dualities in Motion

Chapter 7. Towards a Spiritual Gaze and Cultic Habitus

Part IV: Introduction to the ‘Making of Meaning’

Chapter 8. Flexible Cosmology and an Ontology of Simultaneity

Chapter 9. Towards a Community of Signs

Conclusion: Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-771-0 / 1805397710
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-771-7 / 9781805397717
Zustand	Neuware