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Gypsies and the Problem of Acculturation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Françoise Cozannet
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Our age is trying in many ways to deal with the problem of the survival of ethnic minorities. Being confronted with a centralized political power which destroys cultural differences, many of these minorities have become conscious of their originality (which is often hidden away in folklore) and are in search of a new balance with the dominant culture. They try to achieve this new balance by bringing their basic characteristics up to date or even deliberately entering a phase of counter acculturation and adopting an attitude of political liberation much like that of the formerly colonized peoples.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 24 , Issue 95 , September 1976 , pp. 68 - 92
Copyright
Copyright © 1976 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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References

1 Concerning Gypsy history see F. de Vaux de Foletier, Mille ans d'his toire des Tsiganes, Paris, Fayard, 1971. See also Les Tsiganes dans l'Ancienne France, Paris, Connaisance du Monde, 1961.

2 F. Cozannet, Mythes et Coutumes religeuses des Tsiganes, Paris, Payot, 1973.

3 Concerning this whole aspect of Gypsy culture in general and more spe cifically the problem of his survival see J. P. Liegeois, Mutation Tsiganes, la revolution bohémienne, Brussels, Edition Complexe; Paris, Presses Universi taires de France, 1976. By the same author see Les Tsiganes, Paris, Le Seuil, 1971.

4 The reader will find the details in my volume cited above, pp. 98, 112 and 202 to 211.

5 The principal legislative, administrative and judiciary texts applicable in France to travelling people and populations of nomadic origin are mentioned, analyzed or reproduced in Etudes Tsiganes (Bulletin de l'Association des études tsiganes, 5, rue de Las-Cases, Paris), Nos. 1 and 2, 1973.

6 Concerning this whole theoretical aspect see R. Bastide, Problèmes de l'entrecroisement des civilisations et de leurs oeuvres, in G. Gurvitch, Traité de Sociologie, II, Paris, 1963.