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Hardback book with dust jacket titled THE GYPSIES IN POLAND: History and Customs by Jerzy Ficowski. Published in 1989 by Interpress Publishers. Illustrated in black and white photographs/reproductions with a few in color. Bookseller since 1995 (ULG-3-bottom-R-flat) rareviewbooks
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Original Language: Polish
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The Gypsies in Poland: History and Customs
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Well-illustrated (illustrator). text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have light wear. spine has light dent. edges of pages have light wear. dust jacket has very light wear and some light shelf wear. Seller Inventory # 5043782
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The Gypsies in Poland: History and customs
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Well-illustrated (illustrator). THE GYPSIES IN POLAND: HISTORY AND CUSTOMS, Jerzy Ficowski, translated from the Polish by Eileen Healey, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket (price never printed), richly illustrated in color and B/W, 1989. BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. No bookplate or signature of prior owner. The 1992 used bookstore price tag is affixed to the first free endpaper. Not a library book or remainder. The gray boards are in near fine condition. The dust jacket is in near fine condition. BECAUSE OF THE SIZE AND WEIGHT, EXTRA POSTAGE MAY BE REQUIRED, DEPENDING ON YOUR ADDRESS. 11 ¼ x 8 ¼, 304 pages, 41 ounces XX [From the Introduction] Of all the ethnic groups that have lived in Poland over the centuries, the Gypsies are the most exotic and intriguing and are at the same time the least well known to their fellow citizens and to folklore experts. Their closed tribal and clan communities, cultivating their traditional customs, ruled according to their own laws, and speaking a language known only to themselves, prevent the initiation of outsiders into their secrets. Their contacts with members of the outside world are limited to the area of employment and other money-making activities. This Gypsy apartness is guarded, as it were, from two sides: by their own distrust, borne out by experience, and by the antipathy frequently shown by society at large, which is in turn the product of fears both superstitious and justified, and also of downright xenophobia. This state of affairs has developed over the centuries. We shall discuss below in more detail the historical and social factors that have magnified this mutual feeling of distance over the span of many generations and have given deeper root to mutual animosities. The last decades, after the Gypsies ceased travelling around Poland, have begun here and there to show some softening of contrasts and in certain spheres some lessening of the social isolation of these ex-nomads. These developments can be discerned, but they as yet in no way represent a turning point; they are only the first symptoms, and there is no way of knowing to what extent they are signs of permanent and irreversible change; they are by no means generalized and they are meeting with a great deal of opposition. Gypsy social structures and the laws that govern them are still maintained, despite the changes in their way of life, and their settling in permanent homes. The imperviousness of the Gypsy way of life, guarded by a system of taboos practiced by the members of the community, together with the language barrier, have effectively prevented Polish ethnographers from working in this little-known and highly attractive branch of folklore. The relatively small number of Polish studies of the Gypsies published over the past two centuries have on the whole been limited to historical information and some attempts to describe this people from the outside, without real familiarity with their life and customs. There have also occasionally been some more significant studies of the Romany language in the form of the dialects of settled groups, and a few transcriptions of Romany texts. Seller Inventory # 002908
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THE GYPSIES IN POLAND history and customs
Published by
INTERPRESS PUB., 1989
ISBN 10: 8322323212
ISBN 13: 9788322323212
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The gypsies in Poland : history and customs / Jerzy Ficowski ; [translated from the Polish by Eileen Healey]
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Warsaw : Interpress Publishers, 1989
ISBN 10: 8322323212
ISBN 13: 9788322323212
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Well-illustrated (illustrator). Hardback edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 303 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Subjects; Poland Ethnic relations. Poland Social life and customs. Romanies Poland Folklore. Romanies Poland Social life and customs. Romanies Poland History. Gypsies Poland. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 344177
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The Gypsies in Poland: History and customs
Published by
Interpress Publishers 1989, 1989
ISBN 10: 8322323212
ISBN 13: 9788322323212
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First Edition
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. ISBN 8322323212. Hardcover copy in very good to near fine condition with very good to near fine dustjacket. First printing of this edition. Tight clean attractive, unmarked copy. C4 Shelf 2 7. Seller Inventory # 1002260
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The gypsies in Poland : history and customs / Jerzy Ficowski ; [translated from the Polish by Eileen Healey]
Published by
Warsaw : Interpress Publishers, 1989
ISBN 10: 8322323212
ISBN 13: 9788322323212
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Hardcover
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
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Well-illustrated (illustrator). Hardback edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 303 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Subjects; Poland Ethnic relations. Poland Social life and customs. Romanies Poland Folklore. Romanies Poland Social life and customs. Romanies Poland History. Gypsies Poland. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 344177
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