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  <title>Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey</title>
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    <body><![CDATA[A deeply moving and insightful account of one of the most &quot;liminal&quot; and persecuted groups of people in the world, the &quot;Gypsies&quot; or &quot;Roma&quot; (though neither term is apparently in wide currency among the people themselves).  Few communities can have been so unassimilable, so resistant to modernity -- yet to frame things in that way suggests that the Roma constitute a &quot;problem&quot; (that's certainly how any number of nation states, old and new, have regarded them; and it isn't surprising, given that the Roma's &quot;marginal&quot; status, and the spectre of unstable borders their traditionally nomadic lifestyle suggests, combined with their cultural difference vis-a-vis &quot;Europe&quot;, all make the group transgressive of the mindset for which nation-states are the political horizon par excellence) -- Fonseca, certainly addresses that &quot;problem&quot;; but equally valuable is her attempt to present people as they are (as opposed to as symbols pointing elsewhere)...]]></body>
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