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Travelling circus : an interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Yoram S. Carmeli
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Of the variety of travellers in Britain, circus people belong in a special category. Unlike travelling businessmen, visitors or most tourists, they travel permanently, but in contrast to homeless vagrants, they have a home in their caravans. Together with fairground travellers and various categories of Gypsies, circus people comprise the ‘nomads’ of modern Britain (for classification of travellers see Cohen 1974: 534).

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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , November 1988 , pp. 258 - 282
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1988

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