Study of Research Literature Regarding Turkish Gypsies and the Question of Gypsy Identity
Study of Research Literature Regarding Turkish Gypsies and the Question of Gypsy Identity

Summary/Abstract: This study of material regarding Gypsies in Turkey and the topic of Gypsy identity has two main objectives. The first objective is to investigate and evaluate some of the research that has been carried out about the Gypsies in Turkey so far (especially that by foreign researchers), as a means of examining the research work on Turkish Gypsies from a critical perspective. The second objective is to challenge the impression that the different Gypsy groups in Turkey (Rom, Dom, Lom and those we may describe as Travellers) do not have an ethnicity of their own and have become assimilated into other cultures. A subsidiary intention of this study is to attempt to outline the self-perception of Gypsies in relation to the image that is imposed upon them by majority society, in light of Eriksen’s and Mayall’s theories of “the self in opposition to the other” and notions of “culture being socially constructed”.

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