Country of residence

Spain

Brief introduction

Full Professor (Catedrático), Universidad de Granada

Education

Ph.D. in Anthropology, 1990, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Academic profile

Juan F. Gamella is an anthropologist and professor of Anthropology at the Universidad de Granada, Spain. He has done fieldwork work in Sumatra (Indonesia), California, and different areas of Spain. He did research on development and ecological change, the epidemiology of drug use and AIDS, and ethnic relations and ethnic conflicts, cultural transformation and migration concerning Romani minorities. Over the last 12 years he has developed a etnohistorical and demographic project on the effects of kinship and marriage systems of Gitanos or Spanish Romani on their demographic regime and demographic transition. Its main interests are today in the interface between ethnic differentiation and the kinship-marriage systems and their unintended demographic consequences. He recently finished a book on the elements of a model for improving the success rate of adolescent Gitanos in Spanish high schools, and he is presently researching also the remnants of Romani language in the speech of Spanish Gitanos, and directing a complete reanalysis of the 1783-85 Censuses of Gitanos in Spain.

Publications

• Mujeres gitanas: Matrimonio y género en los gitanos andaluces. Sevilla, 2000.
• “Marriage practices and ethnic differentiation:
• The case of Spanish Gypsies (1870-2000)”. The History of the Family, 10: 45-63, 2005 (with ELISA MARTIN)
• La población gitana en la Andalucía del nuevo siglo. Una interpretación. Sevilla: 2011 (in press).

Keywords

Marriage-kinship gender systems, Cultural Anthropology

Contact

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