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A Original reel audio tape NOT available for consultation
B 1 tape box (annotated)
C 1 x CDR (listening copy)
Pete McGuire talks about 'gypsies' and travellers : he says that local authorities should talk to gypsies and find out what they need before building sites and discusses various issues including organizing sites for gypsies and gypsies' problems with bureaucracy, such as getting driving licences; family problems and feuds; destruction of the gypsy culture; gypsies' sense of shame; relations between men and women in the gypsy community; how he started working with gypsies; gypsies never attack local people; the gypsy way of life as a threat to middle-class structures; gypsies forgetting the valuable things in their own culture and the potential for reviving gypsy culture and identity; conflict among different groups and different cultural identities among gypsies. |