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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 1 / 2008  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEW: DAVID MAYALL, GYPSY IDENTITIES.1500‐2000. FROM EGYPTIANS AND MOONMEN TO THE ETHNIC ROMANY, ROUTLEDGE, FRANCISC & TAYLOR GROUP, LONDON & NEW YORK, 2004, 313P..

Authors:  MARIAN ZĂLOAGĂ. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:   After a pause of some decades from the publication of his firstbook on Gypsy travelers, professor Mayall comes back with a provocativebook, explicitly dedicated to the outer and inner construction of theGypsies identities. Specialist in modern European history at the Universityof Sheffield, professor Mayall’s present book can be seen as a continuationof some thesis first promoted in his first book on Gypsy and Travelers in19th century England published in the 80’s. The regulative relation betweenauthorities and Gypsies/Roma and Travelers is omnipresent in both studiesframing the power policies implemented during the centuries towardsthese groups, with certain effects towards their multiple identitarianoutcomes.  
         
     
         
         
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