1st Edition
View from the Traveller Site Architecture that Begins where the House Ends
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1 ‘Gypsy’, Site and House
2 The Genealogy of the ‘g/Gypsy’
3 The Inquiry
4 The Camp
5 Hiding the Evidence
6 Towards ‘Traveller-Specific’ Architecture
7 Birthing the Site
8 The Work of the Grave: “We all have dead people”
9 “We are Travellers, but not like our Parents”
10 Dolly, Dolliness and the Site
11 Interagency and Resistance
Biography
Anna Hoare is an independent researcher who holds a PhD in Anthropology from University College London. Her recent works include a UN CERD Shadow Report on Ireland, an online mapping project and exhibition titled: Mapping the Histories of London’s Travellers, (a collaboration with NGO London Gypsies and Travellers and Mapping for Change) that has been shown across London, including at City Hall and the Houses of Parliament, and the Wardley Street Project.
"This stunning reappraisal of the ‘movement’ in a Traveller’s life lifts everything out of the ordinary. Traveller realizations of relationships in material form, unfolded here with verve and quiet empathy, challenge bureaucratic understandings of settlement and the conceptual limits of ethnography alike. A major new perspective, working on many levels." - Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge, UK
"This is a tour de force of ethnographic analysis, a profoundly penetrative and moving account of how Irish Travellers forge a sense of community, kinship and selfhood within the unique material and social conditions in which they are enfolded that radically challenge existing understandings of traveller identity and how we understand social reproduction, architecture, and material life in general." - Victor Buchli, University College London, UK
