Estudo de caso sobre os ciganos do bairro Pampulha

Abstract

The present work proposes to conduct a research survey developed in a national scope and that contributes to the advance of the recognition of history, culture and identities of the traditional gypsy peoples, which underwent a silent racism during centuries. The selected chosen piece covers the arrial of gypsies in Brazil, their transit in Minas Gerais and the insertion of these groups in the city of Uberlândia. It is evidenced the diversity of gypsies identities, present in the symbolic universe of gypsies groups and subgroups that carry cultural traces historically diferentiated, but that share a same ethnic unity. This work relies on intercultural studies as a base of analysis for a relation between gypsies and non-gypsies, in a communication and translation of their costumes and beliefs underlined in the recognition of difference and the interaction between cultures.