« On ne peut plus parcourir le monde comme avant » : au-delà de la dichotomie nomadisme/sédentarité

Abstract

Scholars frequently characterize Brazilian Gypsies’ relationship to space via the opposition of sedentariness/nomadism. Yet, an historical and ethnographic approach to their lifestyles shows that whereas we visualizes categories this way in the social sciences, we do not manage to give full account of either their sociability or the meanings they give to their spatiality. The world of the Calon Romani in Bahia is structured by specific principals of kinship, by characterizations of the social person, by the manner in which they seize economic opportunities, and by divisions brought on by violence.

Keywords

• Brésil
• XXe siècle
• XXIe siècle
• Bahia
• tsiganes calon
• spatialité