Boyash Studies: Researching "Our People"

The Boyash, also known as Rudari, Lingurari or, inclusively, as "oamenii no tri" (our people), are an ethnic group living today in scattered communities in the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, but also in the Americas. What brings the disperse communities of Boyash together is their Romanian mother tongue, (memory of) traditional occupation, common historical origin, and the fact that the majority population considers them Gypsies / Roma. A marginal topic until now, at the crossroads between ...