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On a longtemps soutenu que les attitudes des Tsiganes à l'égard du temps s'inspiraient d'une orientation court-termiste. À partir d'une enquête de terrain menée parmi les Roms Cortorari de Roumanie, je suggère que leur appréhension du temps comprend également une dimension qui permet à l'avenir de figurer dans leurs conceptions de la vie. Plus encore, une préoccupation constante pour le mariage et la succession des générations, conjuguée à une manière particulière de considérer certains objets de valeur (les « taxtaja », calices), confirme une parenté orientée vers l'avenir.

Accessible to non-specialists and researchers interested in ethnography, this volume offers an introduction into the uses of anthropology for engaging contemporary social issues. The editors' essay surveys the development of anthropological research from its early exotic, non-Western focus to today's debate over increasingly engaged approaches within a globalized society. The case studies utilize anthropology's hallmark ethnographic methodology to address issues ranging from refugee reception and recognition to fair trade, intercultural education, and encounters with Gypsy populations. - Il presente volume, accessibile sia ai non esperti che ai ricercatori interessati in etnografia, offre un'introduzione alle applicazioni dell'antropologia per affrontare temi sociali attuali. Il saggio introduttivo dei curatori offre una panoramica sullo sviluppo della ricerca antropologica, dagli inizi esotici, con un approccio non-occidentale, fino alla discussione odierna di atteggiamenti di crescente impegno nella nostra società globalizzata. I casi di studio raccolti nel volume utilizzano i metodi etnografici caratteristici dell'antropologia trattando vari argomenti, dall'accoglimento e il riconoscimento dei rifugiati al fair trade, dall'educazione interculturale agli incontri con la popolazione romani.

Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. The authors of this volume explore these complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, how economic opportunities are constructed and seized, and how economic success and failure are transformed into attributes of social persons. They explore how, despite — or perhaps because of — their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, shared today with a growing number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies. The ethnographically based chapters share accounts of socially and economically vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity