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Trivial and dagerous stereotypes? Roma & “Gypsies”
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[T]heories which they [scientists] take for granted: they have absorbed them from their
intellectual environment or from tradition. Since few of these theories are consciously held,they
are prejudices in the sense that they are held without critical examination, even though they may
be of great importance for the practical actions of people.
Popper K (2000) In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years (trans. Laura J
Bennett). London: Routledge.




Derick Baegert | Christ Bearing the Cross | painting | unknown | 1477 - 1478 | vis_00042
Alois Schönn | Three Gypsies | lithography | Austria | 1859 | vis_00027


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Karel Hynek Mácha, Cikáni (1835)
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Karel Anton, Cikáni (1921)

Josef Koudelka | Gypsies Gypsies. Velka Lomnica, Czechoslovakia. 1966. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum
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Josef Koudelka | Gypsies Reconstruction of a homicide. In the foreground: a young gypsy suspected
of being guilty. Jarabina, Czechoslovakia. 1963. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos
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Josef Koudelka, Gypsies, 1967

„The understanding of the Gypsy identity among the non-Roma is vague, which usually results in
prejudice. There are many reasons for that: the association of Roma with the Islamic takeover of
parts of the Christian world; color prejudice, specifically the association of darkness with sin;
the exclusionary nature of Romani culture, which does not encourage intimacy with non-Roma and
creates suspicion on the part of those excluded; fortune-telling, which inspired fear but had to be
relied upon as a means of livelihood in response to legislation curtailing Romani movement and
choice of occupation; the unchallenged function of the "gypsies" as a population upon which
mainstream notions of immorality and lawlessness can be projected and thereby serve to define that
mainstream's own boundaries; the fact that Roma have no territorial, military, political, or
economic strength and are therefore easily targetable as scapegoats because they cannot retaliate;
and the fact that the "gypsy" persona has an-again unchallenged-ongoing function as a symbol of a
simpler, freer time, a representation that is becoming more and more attractive in an increasingly
complex and regimented world.“
Ian Hancock, 1997, “The Struggle for the Control of Identity”, Transitions Vol. 4, No. 4

„The Gypsy image must be deconstructed and replaced by a more accurate one-in the bureaucratic
structures as well as in the textbooks“
Ian Hancock, 1997, “The Struggle for the Control of Identity”, Transitions Vol. 4, No. 4
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