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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey is a non-fiction book on the lives of the Romani people by the American-Uruguayan writer Isabel Fonseca published in 1995. The book is organized in eight chapters and contains black and white photographs and maps.[1]
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
Author
Isabel Fonseca / Izabel / Izabela Fonseka
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Genre
Non-fiction
Publisher
Random House
Publication date
1995
Media type
Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages
322 pp
ISBN
0-679-73743-X
Synopsis Edit
In her book, Fonseca writes about the customs of the Roma (particularly, wedding, funeral rites, and their obsession with purity) and their daily lives, but she also explores their language and their mysterious origin. In addition, she discusses how history has affected current Gypsy settlements. To write this book, Fonseca lived with the Gypsies of Albania and traveled through Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, and Romania for four years.[2]
The title `Bury me standing` comes from a proverb which describes the plight of the Gypsies: `Bury me standing. I`ve been on my knees all my life.`
Reception Edit
Many newspapers and magazines praised the work done by Isabel Fonseca and in a review for the New York Times Janet Maslin complimented her writing as being `erudite, beautifully written`.[2] Some reviewers noted that Fonesca was emotionally involved with her work, but that overall, she was objective in her description of Gypsy life and suffering.[3][4]
Academic and scholarly reception was more critical and some noted that while the work was good, Bury Me Standing could not be considered an anthropological work.[5][6] A reviewer from The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute noted that there was room for improvement in those chapters where she recorded the daily lives of the Gypsy family and in specifying more her research methodologies.[7]
Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins and partly because of the romance of nomadism. But because they resist assimilation, having survived as a distinct people for over 1000 years, they have also been the victims of other people`s nationalism and xenophobia. The have been persecuted throughout the ages, most recently in German concentration camps, and by nationalist mobs in Rumania. In this study, the author focuses particularly on the gypsies of Eastern Europe (an estimated 6 million) and their future as a distinct race within a nationalist Europe. Her book is a blend of the scholarly - their origins, folklore, customs, dietary laws, myths, taboos - and the personal. While researching the book, Fonseca learned Romany and stayed with the gypsies, becoming deeply involved with their lives and befriending several gypsy kings.
Cigani sveta romi romski narod kultura roma putovanja ... sahrani me stojecki uspravno