In Search of the True Gypsy by Wim Willems

Author:Wim Willems [Willems, Wim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780714642222
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1998-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN FOLKLORE

In the wake of the Gypsy Lore Society, in the immemorial ethnic crucible of the Donau monarchy at the end of the nineteenth century, a strong interest arose in the cultural traces of the Hungarian and Transylvanian Gypsies. Ethnologists like Heinrich von Wlislocki and Anton Hermann moved among them and were the first to publish the results of their fieldwork. Hermann also took the initiative, in 1903, in founding the short-lived Gesellschaft für Zigeunerforschung which put out the Mitteilungen zur Zigeunerkunde, an ethnological periodical that can be regarded as the continental equivalent, on a much more modest plane, of the JCLS.38

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