Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference

New Books in Anthropology by New Books Network

Sep 5, 202656:34Science & Medicine

Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers (U Toronto Press, 2024) sheds light on Romani life in Palestine. Arpan Roy presents an ethnographic portrait of Dom Roma...

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