Abstract

LOPES, Daniel Seabra. Enclosed street-markets: the gypsies of lisbon and their trade activities. Etnográfica [online]. 2006, vol.10, n.2, pp.319-335. ISSN 0873-6561.

This article considers a trade activity frequently connected to informality: the sale of clothes in street-markets as practised by gypsy sellers. Starting with the incidents marking the history of a particular street-market, from its beginnings to its final dismantlement, it proceeds with an appreciation of the importance assumed by trade activities, as a form of self-employment, for gypsy communities in general, closing with an analysis of the impediments to the sale in street-markets, especially those posed by power institutions (police force, mayors and the State).

Keywords : market sales; informality; gypsies; power institutions; self-employment; social integration.

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