Relative Strangers by Arpan Roy PAPERBACK 9781487569457

Relative StrangersRomani Kinship and Palestinian Difference\nAuthor(s): Arpan Roy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487569457, 978-1487569457\nSynopsis\nExamining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers sheds light on Romani life in Palestine. Arpan Roy presents an ethnographic portrait of Dom Romani communities living between Palestine and Jordan, zooming in on everyday life in working-class neighborhoods, and under conditions of perpetual war and instability.\n\n The book focuses on how Doms are able to sustain ethnic difference through kinship, even when public performances of difference are no longer emphasized a kind of alterity that is neither visible by obvious markers like race or religious difference, nor detected by the antennas of the state. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Amman, Roy makes a case for.