„Teraz ci powiem”. Praktykowanie przekraczania granic

Lech Mróz

doi:10.26881/etno.2021.7.09

Authors

Lech Mróz University of Warsaw https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2252-5214

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26881/etno.2021.7.09

Keywords:

Gypsy-Roma people, barriers, rapport-building, leader

Abstract

The article presents an account of the author’s research path, following subsequent stages of the relationships formed between the author and the Gypsy-Roma people from the Chaładytka Roma group and the Polska Roma group. The description focuses on overcoming barriers of strangeness and cultural difference, and discusses different phases
of rapport-building and developing mutual trust, along with their impact on the author’s access to various family and social situations. The author reflects on the characteristics that regulate the functioning of the group, its internal rules and hierarchies, as well as attitudes towards other Gypsies-Roma people. The article highlights some changes in the life of Gypsy-Roma people in Poland following forced settlement and transition to a settled lifestyle.

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Author Biography

Lech Mróz, University of Warsaw

Professor at the Faculty of Japanese Culture at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw, former employee and the director of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw.
Main thematic and geographic areas of his research and publications: Gypsies-Roma, Western Ukraine and its borderlands, Asian countries (esp. India, Sakha – Yakutia, Mongolia).

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Mróz, L. (2015b). The Trans-Altai Torgut and Bulgan after Forty Years. W: L. Mróz, M. Ząbek (ed.). Invisible Boundries: Studies on Ethic Issues. Ethnologia Polona, 36(216), 31–51.

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