Chapter 6 ‘I’m Good but also Mad’ The Street Economy in a Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest

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Pulay, Gergő. "Chapter 6 ‘I’m Good but also Mad’ The Street Economy in a Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest". Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century, edited by Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha and Martin Fotta, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, pp. 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782388869-009

Pulay, G. (2015). Chapter 6 ‘I’m Good but also Mad’ The Street Economy in a Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest. In M. Brazzabeni, M. Cunha & M. Fotta (Ed.), Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century (pp. 127-144). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782388869-009

Pulay, G. 2015. Chapter 6 ‘I’m Good but also Mad’ The Street Economy in a Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest. In: Brazzabeni, M., Cunha, M. and Fotta, M. ed. Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782388869-009

Pulay, Gergő. "Chapter 6 ‘I’m Good but also Mad’ The Street Economy in a Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest" In Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century edited by Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha and Martin Fotta, 127-144. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782388869-009

Pulay G. Chapter 6 ‘I’m Good but also Mad’ The Street Economy in a Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest. In: Brazzabeni M, Cunha M, Fotta M (ed.) Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books; 2015. p.127-144. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782388869-009

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Frontmatter i
Contents v
Figures vii
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction: Gypsy Economy 1
Chapter 1 Usury among the Slovak Roma: Notes on Relations between Lenders and Borrowers in a Segregated Taboris 31
Chapter 2 New Redistributors in Times of Insecurity: Different Types of Informal Lending in Hungary 49
Chapter 3 A Way of Life Flowing in the Interstices: Cigano Horse Dealers in Alentejo, Portugal 68
Chapter 4 ‘Endured Labour’ and ‘Fixing Up’ Money The Economic Strategies of Roma Migrants in Slovakia and the UK 88
Chapter 5 ‘I Go for Iron’ Xoraxané Romá Collecting Scrap Metal in Rome 107
Chapter 6 ‘I’m Good but also Mad’ The Street Economy in a Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest 127
Chapter 7 The Mechanisms of Independence: Economic Ethics and the Domestic Mode of Production among Gabori Roma in Transylvania 145
Chapter 8 Deceit and Efficacy: Fortune Telling among the Calon Gypsies in São Paulo, Brazil 163
Chapter 9 Houses under Construction: Conspicuous Consumption and the Values of Youth among Romanian Cortorari Gypsies 181
Chapter 10 Exchange, Shame and Strength among Calon of Bahia: A Values-based Analysis 201
Chapter 11 ‘Give and Don’t Keep Anything!’ Wealth, Hierarchy and Identity among the Gypsies of Two Small Towns in Andalusia, Spain 221
Afterword 240
Index 251

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents v
Figures vii
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction: Gypsy Economy 1
Chapter 1 Usury among the Slovak Roma: Notes on Relations between Lenders and Borrowers in a Segregated Taboris 31
Chapter 2 New Redistributors in Times of Insecurity: Different Types of Informal Lending in Hungary 49
Chapter 3 A Way of Life Flowing in the Interstices: Cigano Horse Dealers in Alentejo, Portugal 68
Chapter 4 ‘Endured Labour’ and ‘Fixing Up’ Money The Economic Strategies of Roma Migrants in Slovakia and the UK 88
Chapter 5 ‘I Go for Iron’ Xoraxané Romá Collecting Scrap Metal in Rome 107
Chapter 6 ‘I’m Good but also Mad’ The Street Economy in a Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest 127
Chapter 7 The Mechanisms of Independence: Economic Ethics and the Domestic Mode of Production among Gabori Roma in Transylvania 145
Chapter 8 Deceit and Efficacy: Fortune Telling among the Calon Gypsies in São Paulo, Brazil 163
Chapter 9 Houses under Construction: Conspicuous Consumption and the Values of Youth among Romanian Cortorari Gypsies 181
Chapter 10 Exchange, Shame and Strength among Calon of Bahia: A Values-based Analysis 201
Chapter 11 ‘Give and Don’t Keep Anything!’ Wealth, Hierarchy and Identity among the Gypsies of Two Small Towns in Andalusia, Spain 221
Afterword 240
Index 251

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