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Paloma GAY Y BLASCO

Country of residence

United Kingdom

Brief introduction

Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK

Education

Phd Social Anthropology, 1995, University of Cambridge

Academic profile

I have worked with Spanish Gitanos (Gypsies/Roma) and on international adoption, and have published on gender and sex, memory and forgetting, community-making, Pentecostalism and the internet. My first monograph, 'Gypsies in Madrid: Sex, Gender and the Performance of Identity' was published in 1999 (Berg). I am also interested in the role of ethnographic writing in anthropology, and with Huon Wardle I published 'How to Read Ethnography' in 2007 (Routeldge). I am now in the process of writing an experimental ethnography/biography.

Publications

  • 1999. Gypsies in Madrid: Sex, Gender and the Performance of Identity. Oxford. Berg.
  • 2008. (with Huon Wardle). How to Read Ethnography. London. Routledge.
  • 2011 Agata’s Story: Singular Lives and the Reach of the ‘Gitano Law’. In : Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 17, 3, p. 445-461.

Keywords

Anthropology, Spanish Gitanos, gender, feminism, ethnography, collaboration

Contact

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