Hry a hračky romských dětí

• Authors: Polakova Jana

Title variants

EN

GAMES AND TOYS OF ROMA CHILDREN

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The contribution deals with the research of children's folklore among Romani people. The author proceeds from her own experience, terrain research, written retrospective sources and literature. She was collecting the source materials for the study between 2005 and 2010, in different types of residential areas. Each of them presents specific features in gaming expressions, in knowledge and variability of games as well as in relationship to toys. Children in Roma settlements use toys collectively. Their games have simple rules, they do not last very long and depend on the actual situation, weather, and the possibility to use the surrounding space and the material offered. The nature in their closest neighborhood provides them with wide variability and possibilities. In Roma settlements, one can note modern varieties of traditional children's games even today. Children coming from non-segregated environment of a small town are better interrelated with their toys; they understand 'playing' in the sense coming near to its usual interpretation. Children from urban agglomeration are lacking mostly in the space itself. Their nearer contact with every-day reality and majority inhabitants in the neighborhood are reflected in diversity of games (cards, cara), used toys (toys for sandpit) and e.g. even in using the children's counting-our rhymes implied from Czech cultural environment.

Keywords

EN

CHILDREN'S FOLKLORE; GAME; ROMA PEOPLE; TOY; TYPES OF ROM SETTLEMENT

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 172-184
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Polakova Jana

• Jana Polakova, Muzeum romske kultury, Bratislavska 67, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11CZAAAA094936