Gypsy folktales from Greece

When we think of the arts in relation to Roma, we think of music and dance, performance arts that are easily accessible to the public at large. Storytelling is considered a significant artform among the Roma but it is a private one, reserved and intended for transmission strictly within their own community.
The book you hold in your hands, Gypsy Folktales from Greece, is a selection of 20 unique and vivid Romani tales, lovingly collected by sociologist-ethnologists Rita Spanouli and Giorgos Lepeniotis over the course of three decades of visits to Romani camps and settlements, and living and traveling with nomadic groups of Roma throughout mainland Greece. […]