A Cigana pediu para ler minha mão: revisão de algumas literaturas brasileiras

Abstract

Due to the Portugal’s XXIV decree that aimed at the expulsion of the gypsies, this group ended up in Brazilian lands. In some reports, the first gypsy to arrive in Brazil was João Torres de Barros along with wife and children. The gypsies can be divided into three subgroups: Rom, Sinti and Calon. All with their cultural singularities. These groups are shown different in many aspects such as the dialect, the way they live, their history, how they absorbed cultural elements from other peoples and so on. The cultural construction and these singularities happened due to migratory paths that these groups have carried out for many years, leaving their homeland and passing through countries like Germany, Portugal, Africa, Brazil and so on. The arrival of these 3 groups in Brazil provided numerous Brazilian literatures that then, gave me the opportunity to undertake this bibliographic review. Thus, academic websites that brought data about the gypsies and about what was being produced about this matter by the academy were verified. On the platforms Scielo and Capes were put keywords like “Gypsies Brazil” that brought me numerous results and, after filtering explained methodologically, I came to some research articles analyzed here. This monograph also aimed to think about this group and all the atrocities they suffered, about the lack of public policy, the cultural way we see the other and the placement of gypsies in the social environment.