The Outskirts of the City: Swedish Roma life narratives and camp sites – Co-creative approaches to excavating a hidden cultural heritage
Author(s): Jonas Nordin
Year: 2016
Summary
During most of the 20th century the Swedish Roma people were forced to be constantly travelling, and usually not being allowed to settle down within a municipality for more than a few weeks at a time. This changed in the mid 1960’s when the Swedish state made sure housing was found for the last members of the group still living in camps. The project "At the outskirts of the city – Swedish Roma life narratives and camp sites from the 20th Century," is based on interaction and cooperation between museum employees, archaeologists, ethnologists and Roma people. Together we explore this part of history through archaeology, archive studies and interviews with Roma people. An important part is an excavation of a former Roma camp, which is the first time such a site is excavated in Sweden.
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The Outskirts of the City: Swedish Roma life narratives and camp sites – Co-creative approaches to excavating a hidden cultural heritage. Jonas Nordin. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434503)
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Keywords
General
Camp Sites
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Margins
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Roma settlements
Geographic Keywords
Sweden
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: 11.113; min lat: 55.34 ; max long: 24.167; max lat: 69.06 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 634