Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Fonseca, Isabel
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 067973743X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679737438
- Seller
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About This Item
Vintage, 1996. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. First Vintage Departures Edition. 1996. Trade Paperback in Good+ Condition. Cover photograph by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert; design by Kathleen DiGrado. Black and white in-text photos. History and culture of the Roma, feared, reviled, romanticized, and among the least understood people on earth. Isabel Fonseca offers Insights into the humor, language, wisdom, and taboos of the Roma, with portraits of individuals--the poet, the politician, children--. Yellow wraps with blue titles and photograph of a Gypsy girl. Very clean and unmarked with light wear to upper edge and lower corner. Minor scuff to front. Binding tight, solid, and square. Internals quite clean no markings, no creases. 352 pages. 8 x 5 inches. 1996, Vintage. ISBN10: 067973743X, ISBN13: 9780679737438
Reviews
On Sep 3 2015, The Old Library Bookshop said:
It is not until page 304 of this 305-page book that the meaning of its title manifests itself. It is here that the author repeats the words of Manush Romanov, a Gypsy leader from Bulgaria, as he says farewell to her with the words, “Bury me standing. I’ve been on my knees all my life.” And it appropriate that the words come as a culmination to this expose because it takes all 300 pages of the book for the reader to reach a deeper understanding of the truth they convey. Fonseca was dauntless in her research, traveling through the countries of post-Communist eastern Europe at the end of the 20th century and enduring life with the Romany families that people her report. My only disappointment as I finished reading this book was that I felt that I still did not have a clear idea of who the Gypsies are and where they originated. But perhaps that is because ethnographers past and present have not come to any concrete understanding of Gypsy roots or ethnicity. What is clear, however, is that there are common bonds of language, taboos, and customs that pervade all the Roma tribes. And although they themselves do not spend much time remembering the past, they share a common history of slavery, oppression, and persecution, right up to modern times with the Nazi porraimos, which translate to “The Devouring.” Settled or nomadic, the Gypsy is the ultimate outsider, resisting assimilation and forever, it seems, inciting the wrath of the assimilated.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029897
- Title
- Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
- Author
- Fonseca, Isabel
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 067973743X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679737438
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall
- Keywords
- GYPSIES, HISTORY; ROMA; INDIA; ROMANIA; NAZIS COMMUNIST REGIMES; SCAPEGOATS;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. General;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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