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Ian Hancock
Professor — Ph.D., London University
Harold C. and Alice T. Nowlin Regents Professor In Liberal Arts
Contact
- E-mail: xulaj@mail.utexas.edu
- Phone: 232-7684
- Office: CAL 420
- Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.; 11:30 - 12:30
- Campus Mail Code: B5100
REE S325 • Gypsy Language And Culture
87783 •
Summer 2013
Meets
MTWTHF 830am-1000am BEN 1.122
(also listed as
ANT S324L, E S350E, LIN S322, MES S342 )
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Instructor: Hancock, I Areas: IV / D
Unique #: 83755 Flags: Global Cultures
Semester: Summer 2013, second session Restrictions: n/a
Cross-lists: ANT 324L, LIN 322, MES 322K Computer Instruction: No
Prerequisites: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing.
Description: This course presents the linguistic history of the Romani ("Gypsy") people, from 11th Century AD India to the present day. Theories relating to this exodus out of the Subcontinent and the subsequent migrations into Europe are discussed on the basis of the social and linguistic evidence available to us. In addition to studying aspects of the lexicon and syntax of the modern American and European dialects of the Romani language, an introduction to Gypsy history and culture will also form part of the course. We will examine the sociology of this Diaspora people, the Indian roots of their music, cuisine and social traditions, external linguistic and cultural influences, and interactions with non-Gypsy peoples. The reasons for the persistence of the stereotypical image of the Gypsy among non-Gypsies will be discussed, and also examined will be the five hundred years of slavery, transportation to the American plantations, the fate of the Romani people in the Holocaust, and the current struggle for civil and political rights since Gypsies gained admittance to the United Nations Organization in 1979.
Texts: Required: Hancock, We Are the Romani People. Course supplement available from Speedway Copying in Dobie Mall.
Requirements & Grading: One (1) term paper, 25%; three (3) written tests, 60%; one (1) book or film report, 15%.
REE 325 • Gypsy Language And Culture-W
45517 •
Spring 2010
Meets
T 1100-1230pm CBA 4.332
(also listed as
ANT 324L, LIN 322, MES 322K )
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UGS 302 • Romani Reality & Gypsy Myth-W
64750 •
Fall 2009
Meets
TTH 930-1100 PAR 302
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This course is about the world’s 12 million Romani people, the so-called “Gypsies.” It will address their origins, migrations, culture and media and literary portrayal. Examined also will be the challenges of ethnic/linguistic maintenance for various other diasporic peoples, the vulnerability of stateless or formerly stateless populations to discrimination and stereotyping, and the contemporary efforts on the part of such populations to resist and change those things. Questions raised for discussion/debate will inter alia address the psychology of stereotyping and racism, and how ethnic groups with radically different cultural values and practices can adjust to coexist with those of the mainstream and continue to survive. Requirements include three in-class, closed-book, hand-in exams across the semester and the preparation of a substantial research paper, the first draft of which must be completed and submitted by mid-term (October 14th, no exceptions), with the pre-final version to be presented before the class for comment and criticism from each of you during the last weeks of the semester. This must be written with the potential submission for publication in mind. Written exams will constitute 40% of the final grade, oral presentation, your paper and your critiques of the other presentations another 50%, and the remaining 10% will go to participation and attendance. Substance will count more than volume. We can arrange on-campus evening classes later in the semester if necessary.
Students with disabilities may request appropriate academic accommodations from the Services for Students with Disabilities, 471-6259. Discuss this with me first.
Assisting the class is fellow student Anna Brucker, who has taken this course previously and who is available to advise you on your progress and answer many of your questions. Her e-mail is anna.brcker@gmail.com.
The people at Library Instruction Services provide another valuable source of help. Check their website at http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~instruct/meet.html. They will be glad to assist you with your writing assignment. Do plan to visit them during the semester, they will let me know that you have done so.
For a detailed Course Syllabus, download attachment.
Publications
“Roma (Gypsies)”, in Jonathan Friedman, ed., The Routledge History of the Holocaust. New York: Routledge.
“Jasenovac and the Roma,” in B. Lituchy (ed.) Jasenovac. Proceedings of the 5th International conference on Jasenovac. Banja Luca. In press.
Romani-go no Kantanna Bunpō to Bunshō. Tokyo: Hakusuisha Publrs. (translator, Takeshi Mizutani). 2010 [A short grammar and phrase book of Romani].
Hancock, Ian, 2010. “Current findings about Romani history and Romani contributions to the arts,” in Takahashi, ed., Relationship Between Eurasia and Japan: Mutual Interaction and Representation. Osaka: The University Press. Pp. 27-31.
“Mind the Doors! The Contribution of Linguistics in reconstructing history,” in Damian Le Bas, ed.), All Change!: Recent debates over the history and origin of Roma/Gypsies/Travellers. Hatfield: UH Press, 2010
“Symbols and dreams: Some thoughts on Kusturica’s ‘The Time of the Gypsies’,” in Huether, Andreas, Dara Waldron & Mícheál Ó hAodha, eds., 2009. Screening “Difference;” Visual Culture and the Nomadic “Other.” Essen: Die Blaue Eule Verlag, pp. 40-47.
“Introduction,” Ronald Lee, Romani-English Dictionary. Montreal: Magoria Books. 2009.
“The ‘Gypsy’ Stereotype and the Sexualization of Romani Women,” in Valentina Glajar (ed.), Gypsies in Literature and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan. 2008.
“Romani and Angloromani,” in John Holm & Suzanne Michaelis, eds., Contact Languages. New York: Routledge, 2007.
“Simon Wiesenthal and the Romanies,” in Michael Fineberg, Shimon Samuels & Mark Weitzman, eds., Antisemitism, the Generic hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal. London: Vallentine Mitchell. 2007.
“Romanies,” The New Book of Knowledge. Danbury: Grolier/Scholastic. 2007. pp. 299-301.
“Our need for internal diplomatic skills,” in V. Nicolae & Hanna Slavik, eds., Roma Diplomacy. Brussels: European Roma Information Office. 2007.
“History of research on pidgins and creoles,” in Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar and K. Mattheier (eds.), Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2007 edition, pp. 459-469.
“The Struggle for the Control of Identity,” in Ó hAodha & Hancock 2007:44-6.
“Romani and Angloromani,” in John Holm & Suzanne Michaelis, eds., Contact Languages. New York: Routledge, 2007.
"‘Context is All’: The Reification of Symbol in Kusturica’s The Time of the Gypsies” in Ó hAodha & Hancock 2007: 81-92.
“The Raggedy Rawney: Film as the Consolidation of Stereotype,” in Ó hAodha & Hancock 2007:93-99.
“Simon Wiesenthal and the Romanies,” in Michael Fineberg, Shimon Samuels & Mark Weitzman, eds., Antisemitism, the Generic hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal. London: Vallentine Mitchell. 2007.
“Our need for internal diplomatic skills,” in V. Nicolae & Hanna Slavik, eds., Roma Diplomacy. Brussels: European Roma Information Office. 2007.
“Romanies,” The New Book of Knowledge. Danbury: Grolier/Scholastic. 2007. pp. 299-301.
“On Romani origins and identity”, in Adrian Marsh & Elin Strand, eds., Gypsies and the Problem of Identities: Contextual, Constructed and Contested. Istanbul: Swedish Research Institute, pp. 69-92. 2006.
“Romani,” in Celeste Ray, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Vol. 5, pp.213-215.
“On the interpretation of a word: Porrajmos as Holocaust,” in Acton, Thomas, & Michael Hayes, eds., Travellers, Gypsies, Roma: The Demonisation of Difference, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars’ Press, pp. 53-57. 2006.
“Romani origins and Romani identity: a reassessment of the arguments,” in Acton, Thomas, & Michael Hayes, eds., 2006. Counter Hegemony and the Irish “Other.” Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars’ Press, pp. 86-96
“Dužnost i ljepota, vlastništvo i istina: jezničosi-romašenje kao kontrola,” in D.Tong (ed.), Romi: Interdiciplinarni Prikaz. Belgrade: Ibis-Grafika, pp. 107-120. 2006.
Sindrom Parije: Pri a o Ropstvu i Progonu Roma. Zagreb: Ibis Grafika, 2006.
"Literature’s Gypsy and the real Romani,”in Michael Hayes & Thomas A. Acton, eds., 2006. Counter-Hegemony and the Irish “Other”. London: The Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 18-27.
Introduction to Ronald Lee, Learn Romani. Hatfield: The University of Hertfordshire Press, 2006. Pp. 8.
“On Romani origins and identity”, in Adrian Marsh & Elin Strand, eds., Gypsies and the Problem of Identities: Contextual, Constructed and Contested. Istanbul: Swedish Research Institute, pp. 69-92. 2006.
“Dužnost i ljepota, vlasništvo i istina: Jezničosi-romašenje kao kontrola,” in Diane Tong, ed., Romi: Interdiciplinarni Prikaz, Belgrade: Ibis-Grafika, pp. 107-120. 2006.
“Romani,” in Celeste Ray, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Vol. 5, pp.213-215.
“Romanies in 19th Century Europe,” in Jay Winter & John Merriman, Editors, Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914, Macmillan: Farmington Hills, 2005.
“Romani Religion,” in Jeff Kaplan, Bron Taylor & Samuel S. Hill, eds., The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (Gale, 2005).
A History of the Romanies. Co-authored with Hristo Kjučukov. Philadelphia: Boyds Mill Press, 2005. Listed in the 2006 edition of The Best Children’s Books of the Year.
Carmen. Programme notes for the New York City Opera Company's Summer production. 2005, pp. 46-7.
Mi Vagyunk a Romani Nép. Budapest: Pont Kiado [Hungarian language edition of We Are the Romani People]. 2004.
Paria Shindoromu: Jipushiasabetu no Rekishi to Kozo. Tokyo: Sairyu Sha Publishers [Japanese language edition of The Pariah Syndrome]. 2004.
The Heroic Present: The Photographs of Jan Yoors and His Life with the Gypsies. The Monacelli Press, New York, 2004.
“Romanies (Gypsies).” The Encyclopedia of Europe Vol. 8: 1914-2004. John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds.-in-chief. New York: Charles Schribner’s Sons.
We Are the Romani People: Ame Sam e Rromane Džene. Commissioned by the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) and published in 2002 by The University of Hertfordshire Press.
Země Utrpení: Dějiny Otroctví a Pronásledování Romů, Prague: Signeta, 2001.
A Handbook of Vlax Romani. Slavica, Inc., Columbus, 1995.
O ričh kaj nas. Romani language transltion of the book The bear that wasn’t, by Frank Tashlin. Dover Publications, New York (1946). 1994.
“(A)voiding ordure,” George Borrow Bulletin, 4:17 (1992).
The Texas Seminoles and their Language. Publication of the Seminole Scout Association, Brackettville, 1991.
The Pariah Syndrome: An account of Gypsy Slavery and Persecution. Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers, 1987. Second edition, 1988. Second printing of second edition, 1990. Widely reviewed, inc. in the New York Times.
A grammar of Carpathian-American (Bašaldo) Romani. Manchaca: International Romani Union, 1987.
International English Usage. London: Croom Helm, Ltd., 1986. In several editions, Including paperback and Japanese translation. Co-authored with Loreto Todd. This has been published in the United States by Routledge.
Land of pain: Five centuries of Gypsy slavery. Austin, 1982.
Grammatical sketch of Louisiana Creole French. Privately-circulated monograph, Austin, 1977.
Deš terne bališe (Romani-language counting book). For use in Gypsy school in Chicago. Austin, 1973.
Me šaj džinav (Romani language primary reader). For use in Gypsy school in Chicago. Austin, 1973.
A reference index of the principal motifs occurring in the oral literature of Indians of the British Columbia coast. Vancouver: B.C. Historical Archives Special Publication, 1972.
Place-names of the Pacific North-West derived from Chinook Wawa, with a word-list of the language. Vancouver: B C. Historical Archives Special Publication, 1972.
Papia Kristang Dictionary. S.O.A.S., University of London, 1971. Privately-circulated monograph, pp. 43.
Dictionary of Sierra Leone Krio, incorporating obsolete words and expressions found in the literature, and items peculiar to the dialect of The Gambia. London, 1971. iv + 166.
A Nordlinn grammar and dictionary. S.O.A.S., London, 1971. Pp. 85.
