R342: Roma (Gypsy) History and Culture

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A Guide to Critical Thinking about What You See on the Web -- a superb guide from John R. Henderson, a librarian at Ithaca College.  Use the rubric on his site to critcally evaluate one of the web sites listed below.

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Some Useful Encyclopedias:

Grove Music Online: Comprehensive encyclopedia covering all musical topics. Incorporates the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online: Contains the full text of the 10-volume print encyclopedia of world music.

 

Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Research Collection Reference: GN495.4 .E63 2005

The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Research Collection Reference: GN492 .E86 2004

 

Keywords:

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Romanies
Romanies--Education
Romanies--Europe
Romanies--Politics and government
Romanies--Government relations
Romanies--Health and hygiene
Romanies--Music
Romanies--Social conditions

Expert searching: articles

Anthropology Plus
Searches both Anthropological Literature and Anthropology Index, covering all subfields of anthropology. Coverage: Late 19th century to present.

Historical Abstracts
Index to journals, chapters and theses about world history, 1450 to present. Consult America: History and Life for coverage of U.S. and Canada. Coverage: 1954-present

MLA International Bibliography
Indexes material in modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore. Coverage: 1963-

PAIS International
Comprehensive political science database. Index to articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics and government. Coverage: 1972-present

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Index with abstracts in English to all categories of literature about all genres of music. Books, theses and dissertations, articles in journals. Coverage: 1969-

 

American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies Online (ABSEES)
Online version of the American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (1956-1994). Coverage: 1990-present

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL)

Key Websites

IGOs:

• Council of Europe: Roma and Travellers Division
• European Union: "The EU and the Roma"
• OSCE: High Commissioner on National Minorities

• OSCE: Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights:Roma and Sinti

• OSCE: Publications on Roma and Sinti Issues

• The World Bank: Roma

NGOs:

• The Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation): Roma Initiatives: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/topics/roma
• European Centre for Minority Issues: http://www.ecmi.de/
  
  
  • ECMI: Romani Page: http://www.ecmirom.org/
• European Roma and Travler Forum: http://ertf.org/
• European Roma Information Office (ERIO): http://www.erionet.org/
• European Roma Rights Centre: http://errc.org/
• The Gypsy Lore Society: http://www.gypsyloresociety.org/
• The Patrin Web Journal: Romani Culture and History: http://www.reocities.com/~patrin/
  Roma Buzz Monitor: http://roma.idebate.org
• World Artists Initiative: http://artists-for-roma-net.ning.com
• DX Collection: http://libraryexhibits.utad.utoledo.edu/DX/web.html
• A Roma Journey: http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition/roma_journey/eng/index.html

22 January 2013, Moira Marsh, molsmith@indiana.edu