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The migration of Romanian Korturare is analyzed with a focus on the transformation of three aspects of their funerary practices: place of burial, multi-sited funeral celebrations, and the use of communication technologies. This 'mortuary focus', which has not previously been applied to studies of international Romani migration, provides a better understanding of the interaction between territorial attachment and international mobility patterns. Observations based on ethnographic fieldwork are complemented by an analysis of social media use, audiovisual materials and a sample of 69 deaths. Localities of origin continue to be the preferred place for burial and collective memorialization, while funerals become multi-sited, involving both host towns and hometowns. The mediatization of death practices reinforces both of these tendencies. The transformation reflects the role of Korturare social organization in the migration process. The broad and densely nested family networks of the Korturare keep the possibility of multidirectional migration open and act as an adaptive resource by reproducing community life abroad. At the same time, they preserve the localities of origin as the common and privileged territory of the symbolic reproduction of family ties.

Este artículo describe procesos de reproducción institucional entre familias romaníes rumanas emigradas a España. Se analizan prácticas matrimoniales culturalmente diferenciadas basadas en transferencias de bienes, derechos y símbolos y orientadas al alcance de acuerdos interfamiliares, cuya vulneración es resuelta mediante un sistema de derecho autónomo, que prevé procedimientos públicos de resolución de conflictos, los 'kris'. Los datos proceden del trabajo de campo etnográfico realizado entre 2003 y 2007 en Andalucía y Transilvania. Se demuestra cómo la ritualidad, las elecciones matrimoniales y las negociaciones del contrato matrimonial derivan del encuentro entre la agencia de los futuros cónyuges y la de los padres, así como de la orquestación entre los roles políticos de los varones adultos dentro de sus propias familias, en la esfera interfamiliar y como mediadores en el 'kris'. Se demuestra también que el kris es un instrumento del derecho civil, sin competencias de tipo penal. ; This paper describes processes of institutional reproduction among Romanian Roma families that emigrated to Spain. We analyse marriage practices culturally differentiated on the basis of transfers of property, rights, and symbols oriented to reaching agreements between families, infringement of which is resolved by an autonomous legal system that can also foresee public procedures of conflict resolution, the 'kris'. The data come from an ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2003 and 2007 in Andalusia and Transylvania. We show how the rituals, marriage choices, and matrimonial contract negotiations result from the encounter between the agency of the future spouses and that of their parents, as well as from the orchestration between the political roles of adult males within their own families, in the interfamily relations and as mediators in the 'kris'. It is also demonstrated that the kris is a civil-law instrument, with no authority in the sphere of a criminal law. ; - Grupo de investigación Antropología y Filosofía (SEJ-126). Universidad de Granada. - Área de Antropología Social. Universidad de Jaén. - Laborarorio de Antropología Social y Cultural (HUM-472). Universidad de Almería. - Departamento de Filosofía II. Universidad de Granada.