O modo de vida da comunidade cigana em Sousa-PB.

Abstract

The Sousa Roma are owners of traditions and values, and seek to preserve them. In a motion reworking of their culture, maintains its identity. Culture plays a key role in relations between human beings, differentiating another group, and care, to be part of the human being, is also a form of culture. The cultural trait is the overlying humans of interest and desires, and this is what separates human society of animals. Based on the above, it had as objective to describe the way of life of the Roma community in Sousa-PB. The specific objectives identified as the Roma live in Sousa-PB. The research was the result of fieldwork conducted in the city of Sousa, Paraíba State in the years 2014 and 2015 was used as the main technique the interview, through which we seek relevant information to local representations of the Roma population. It was open interviews with a pre prepared script, with the authorization of respondents. It is noticeable the change in Gypsy culture in Sousa, from the language formerly used most frequently by all Roma today still for elders, especially the increasingly religion open to new churches, the opening of marriages between Roma and non Roma, the boss who for many today does not exist.