- Gebundene Ausgabe: 322 Seiten
- Verlag: Knopf (17. Oktober 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0679406786
- ISBN-13: 978-0679406785
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 16,5 x 3,8 cm
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- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 912.966 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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They travel endlessly and seem to appear almost everywhere, yet they are the world's most mysterious people: Gypsies. Isabel Fonseca has done the impossible, entering into their world, living and traveling with Gypsies during several long trips to Eastern Europe, and she has brought back an insightful, highly personal, and very readable account of who the Gypsies are and how they live. The Gypsies have a legendary aversion to "gadje," or outsiders, but Fonseca has lifted the curtain and written gracefully about their lives on the edge of society.
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Traveling as a journalist, Fonseca stayed with a number of Gypsy families in Eastern Europe between 1991 and 1995. Through her experiences with them, study of the scholarship about them, and interviews with leading figures, she has produced a contemporary account of their status, incorporating details of their society, culture, and history. Her work portrays their commitment to tribal traditions and adherence to ritual and offers good insights, particularly into women's lives. The author regards Gypsies as "an ancient scapegoat" who survive through their traditions and a collective denial of their mistreatment by outsiders, including the Germans during World War II. The author details the discrimination that has kept the Gypsies, now often called Roma, from development of an identity and acceptance by the international community. Fonseca's work will appeal to both interested lay readers and scholars in the field. It belongs in subject collections.
Rena Fowler, Humboldt State Univ., Arcata, Cal.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Rena Fowler, Humboldt State Univ., Arcata, Cal.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Everybody knows about the Gypsies. My mother pointed them out to me once, camped on a fifties backroad, perhaps in Colorado, as we drove by. They were dirty and dangerous; the movies had taught us that, and here they were, right in our backyards.
Fonseca knows something else. She begins her book by dropping us into a Gypsy family in Albania, where we live with them for weeks, learning them as whole people with admirable traits and some not so admirable. And watching them clean their clothes, their children, their kitchens, putting the lie to the most essential reason for our distrust.
The Gypsies don't think of the Holocaust as a special time of persecution. They have always been pariahs and persecuted. Fonseca's grim tour of Eastern Europe documents country after country where the Gypsies are hated by the majority and unprotected by the authorities. We leave the book wondering if the sick orgy of 'ethnic cleansing' in the Balkans was aimed not at religious differences but at the Gypsies.
_Bury Me Standing_ documents the universal plight of the landless and non-technological in a world that defines civilization as property and things. Like the Indians, the Gypsies must compromise their most essential values in order to survive.
Dirty Gypsies. Dirty Indians. The dirty Indians of the Great Plains bathed every morning, unlike the stinking, foul-mouthed soldiers who slaughtered them. Like the Indians, the Gypsies live behind a layer of almost opaque misconception; and like the Indians, their desire for privacy gives them no way to undo those misconceptions.
Wisely structured, thoroughly researched, fleshing history with yesterday's news, illuminating this grim day with the lamps of the past, _Bury Me Standing_ is much more than a book about the quaint and fascinating Gypsies.
Full review at www.dancingbadger.com.
Fonseca knows something else. She begins her book by dropping us into a Gypsy family in Albania, where we live with them for weeks, learning them as whole people with admirable traits and some not so admirable. And watching them clean their clothes, their children, their kitchens, putting the lie to the most essential reason for our distrust.
The Gypsies don't think of the Holocaust as a special time of persecution. They have always been pariahs and persecuted. Fonseca's grim tour of Eastern Europe documents country after country where the Gypsies are hated by the majority and unprotected by the authorities. We leave the book wondering if the sick orgy of 'ethnic cleansing' in the Balkans was aimed not at religious differences but at the Gypsies.
_Bury Me Standing_ documents the universal plight of the landless and non-technological in a world that defines civilization as property and things. Like the Indians, the Gypsies must compromise their most essential values in order to survive.
Dirty Gypsies. Dirty Indians. The dirty Indians of the Great Plains bathed every morning, unlike the stinking, foul-mouthed soldiers who slaughtered them. Like the Indians, the Gypsies live behind a layer of almost opaque misconception; and like the Indians, their desire for privacy gives them no way to undo those misconceptions.
Wisely structured, thoroughly researched, fleshing history with yesterday's news, illuminating this grim day with the lamps of the past, _Bury Me Standing_ is much more than a book about the quaint and fascinating Gypsies.
Full review at www.dancingbadger.com.
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If you view the comments here by those who read the book you can see that the significance of "Bury Me Standing" lies in the discourse it has evoked. To those who judge the book and find fault, your comments indicate that you have knowledge about this subject we all should be made aware of. Write your own story. And to those who enjoyed this work and learned about a culture they may not be from, your positive response even from a possibly biased or flawed work contributes toward a communal empathy any human should have for other disenfranchised people. The story here is not the writer, or the prose, or proper translation; the story is that this diasporic culture exists among us and trying to recognize them is a valuable endeavor. I would recommend this to those who are not turned-off by a descriptive rather than narrative style and for people who are interested in a few facets of the Gypsy diaspora.
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Having seen this book on someone's list somewhere, I bought it on impulse, mostly because I knew next to nothing about Gypsies, their history or their culture. All I had to start with were a few folktales from a collection I read a long time ago, and a vague recollection of having once read something in a book about the Holocaust.
In many ways, this book is astonishing; not because it shocks (when it does do so, it is when pointing out the repeated persecution of Gypsies since their exodus from India), but because it provides insights into a culture perceived by outsiders as mysterious and secretive.
For instance, I did not know before reading this book that Gypsies have a rich oral tradition, or why they have always had trouble staying settled in any one place, or how they regard their past, or what their hopes are for the future. The jacket blurb describes them as "the least understood people on earth," and Fonseca both illustrates how this misunderstanding is expressed, and enlightens us with as much of an insider's view as any gadje is ever likely to get
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Biased is right
As an American woman working with an NGO here in Romania, I can readily agree with the reviewer's comments of the book. "Bury Me Standing" is indeed a very biased book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
Good research, but opinions heavily biased
While I have to commend Fonseca for her extensive in-the-field research, I was a bit put off by many of her blanket statements. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
Good description for Muslim Roma, but not all Roma
My husband and myself are from one of the largest Rom villages in the former Yugoslavia. While we found Isabel Fonseca's book entertaining, some the information was inadequate. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. März 2000 von "baranja2428"
An excellent account of Gypsys today.
This book shaters all of the romantic images we have of the Gypsies. If all you ever knew of them was from some silly opera than you are sadly misenformed. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
Why tell only half the story?
I read the book and all the reviews listed and I have one comment in regards to what Peckenpaugh wrote. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Februar 2000 von Kevin Lahoda
Good info, writing could've been better
Fonseca certainly did a commendable job researching her subject, and there is interesting and useful information all throughout the book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Januar 2000 von W.D. Peckenpaugh
Filled in lots of gaps for me.
Gypsies have intrigued me since I first heard about the mystery surrounding their origins in a high-school world history class. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
Good, but too long and badly written.
This book gives a perfectly detailed picture of the Gypsy people in the past present, and in the future. My only problem is that the book is too long and arduous to read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. November 1999 von Allen Kovik
A good , but not scintillating , first person account .
Look. The book was ok and certainly Fonseca's foresaking the comforts of Western life to research the book commands respect, but it is a bit of a slog to finish and the prose could... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Fantastic book. Detailed stories and insights. Unbiased.
I am married to an American Gypsy who was born and raised in Chicago. His parents, grandparents were also born & raised in America. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
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