Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Pages: 19-38

Journal: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

Volume number: 28

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 1755-2923

eISSN: 1755-2931

Open access status: Gold

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2019.280105

Publisher: Berghahn Journals

Abstract: 
As one of the most stereotyped minorities, the Roma are particularly 'good to think' in relation to constructions of Europeanness. In the production of 'Gypsiness', the body, the space, and the materiality of the dwelling are linked through smell as signifiers of a racial and cultural inferiority that does not 'belong' in and to Europe. Drawing on research projects carried out in the outskirts of Rome and in a small Romanian town, our contribution relies on a juxtaposed ethnography of constructions of 'Gypsiness' in relation to the spatial, sensorial and material inscriptions of the body. The article will examine the relationship between space and the social production of smell, discussing how spaces inhabited by Roma play a role in 'doing' Europeanness in a contrastive mode.

Harvard Citation style: Racles, A. and Ivasiuc, A. (2019) Emplacing Smells Spatialities and Materialities of 'Gypsiness', Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 28(1), pp. 19-38. https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2019.280105

APA Citation style: Racles, A., & Ivasiuc, A. (2019). Emplacing Smells Spatialities and Materialities of 'Gypsiness'. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. 28(1), 19-38. https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2019.280105