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The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain (Annotated) - Enriched Edition Roma Language Customs and Marginal Lives in Nineteenth-Century Spain - cover

The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain (Annotated) - Enriched Edition Roma Language Customs and Marginal Lives in Nineteenth-Century Spain

George Borrow

Publisher: e-artnow

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George Borrow's The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain is a vivid ethnographic travel narrative devoted to the Roma of nineteenth-century Spain, especially their language, customs, occupations, songs, and precarious relation to state and church authority. Combining philological inquiry, anecdote, reportage, and Romantic-era fascination with marginal peoples, Borrow writes in a style at once scholarly, dramatic, and personal. The book belongs to the tradition of European travel literature and early ethnology, though its observations are shaped by the assumptions and prejudices of its age. Borrow, an English writer, linguist, and agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society, travelled widely through Spain in the 1830s while distributing Protestant scriptures. His unusual gift for languages and his sympathy for outsiders brought him into contact with Romani speakers, smugglers, muleteers, and rural communities. These experiences, later central to his literary reputation, informed both the documentary ambition and the adventurous energy of The Zincali. This book is recommended to readers interested in Roma history, Spanish cultural life, nineteenth-century travel writing, and the complex origins of ethnographic prose. It should be read critically, with awareness of its period biases, but also appreciatively, as a remarkable record of encounter, language, and social observation.

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Available since: 11/26/2023.
Print length: 606 pages.

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