História das mulheres ciganas Calon de Sousa-PB: entre tradição e realidade.

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the Gypsy culture of the Calon community in the city of Sousa, Paraíba, Brazil, from the perspective of Gypsy women and their look at the traditions and customs of Gypsy culture, considering the various changes suffered over time and space in which they are inserted, from the "stop to live" in the city of Sousa in the year 1982, where they settled there and live until today. The highlight of this work is the "women's tales", that is, through interviews conducted in the gypsy community, where women speak through their memories, about how they live the gypsy culture in a singular way after stopping to establishment. In this research, we analyze the life of gypsy women and the obstacles they face in daily life, the prejudice and exclusion that persecute them from their begining, as well as the life of the gypsies and how they live the traditions and the customs in community or outside it. Thus, through this research and the community interviews with gipsy women, it was possible to verify that the gipsy are more than the society imagines or the characters it creates to portray the culture of a people that has always been and continues to be marginalized. The gypsies are part of our history, they have been here since the colonization and from there they suffer from marginalization and the myths that are created about them. Therefore, we base our study on the historiography of the gypsy stories, covering all the aspects that encompass them, be it cultural by the historiography of José D’Assunção Barros and Peter Burke, orality by Verena Alberti, and on traditions by Denise Jodelet. Thus relating culture to their memories, since these are source of affection, as well as stressing the importance of research in its various modalities as sources, and in this case in particular, the traditions of a people.