Non-sedentarism, Violence and Politics of Assertive Egalitarianism among Calon Gypsies of Bahia, Brazil

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ID2736296
AuthorsMartin Fotta (0000-0002-3037-317X, Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume84
Issue5
Pages806-827
Publication date2019-10-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00141844.2018.1510844
OpenAlexW2888998442
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited36

The community life of Calon Romanies (Gypsies) in Bahia, northeast Brazil, is politically instituted through and by violence. Violence and fear of violence underlie Calon sociability and serve as a way to mark Calon as distinct from Jurons (non-Gypsies). Within communities, it undermines the tendency for personal power and efficacy to coalesce into rank, as well as the tendency for settlements to petrify into entities with fixed identities. Ultimately, the article argues, what makes violence practicable as a mode of fabricating social relations in the first place is Calon non-sedentarism, which posits one's readiness to move as a mechanism through which belonging and relatedness are expressed, and which values flexibility in spatial arrangements rather than a fixed domicile

Assertiveness · Criminology · Egalitarianism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Psychology · Romani and Gypsy Studies · Social Psychology

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