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📘 Description can become a political category

Borrow names a people while judging them. Read both.

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What you’ll learn

  1. Borrow and the ZincaliRead Borrow as both source and evidence of nineteenth-century categorization.The Zincali preserves observations about speech and contact while also showing how an outsider's labels can shape representation.

Questions this course answers

What must readers examine besides Borrow's observations?

The work is evidence about both Romani life as represented and the observer's assumptions.

What is the main methodological lesson of The Zincali?

The course treats Borrow as both source material and evidence of framing.

Why should Borrow not be the only source?

British Library and Roma-institute collections help situate one nineteenth-century book within broader histories.

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