Portrait Obsession: Reproducing Gypsy Identity through Photographs.
This article examines the importance Gypsies attribute to photographic images of themselves, suggesting that such images play a crucial role in the reproduction and questioning of their identity. Based on empirical evidence collected among Gypsy communities in the Lisbon urban area, the article test...
| Publicado en: | Visual Anthropology Vol. 22; no. 5; pp. 412 - 435 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct-Dec2009
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