Cascarots

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The Cascarots (Basque : Kaskarotuak) are a Romani-like ethnic group from Spain who settled in parts of the Basque Country after the end of the fifteenth century. [1] [2]

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History

The Cascarots are record from the fifteenth century in Spain and France, around the Basque country. [3] [1] [2] They are believed to be the descendants of marriages between Basques and Romani people. [4]

Historic documents mention the Cascarots living in ghettos, for example in Ciboure and occasionally entire villages such as the village of Ispoure. [2]

Name

In some sources the name for the Cascarots is recorded as Carraques. [5]

Culture

The Cascarots are traditionally known as good dancers, [6] with the Kaskarotak March being a particular dance seen in the Pyrenean valleys. [7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Gómez-Ibáñez, Daniel Alexander (August 21, 1972). "The Western Pyrenees: Differential Evolution of the French and Spanish Borderland". University of Wisconsin-Madison – via Google Books.
  2. 1 2 3 Alford, Violet (1929). "French Basques: Cascarots and Cavalcades". Music & Letters . 10 (2): 141–151. doi:10.1093/ml/X.2.141. JSTOR   726037.
  3. ↑ MacLaughlin, Jim (1999). "The gypsy as 'other' in European society: Towards a political geography of hate". The European Legacy. 4 (3): 35–49 [44]. doi:10.1080/10848779908579970.
  4. ↑ Matras, Yaron (January 1, 1995). Romani in Contact: The History, Structure, and Sociology of a Language. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN   9027236291 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Poueyto, Jean-Luc (October 2018). "Être manouche : une histoire de familles" [Being gypsy: a family story]. Ethnologie française (in French). 48 (4). Presses Universitaires de France: 601–611 [601–602]. doi:10.3917/ethn.184.0601. JSTOR   44972708.
  6. ↑ Alford, Violet (December 1934). "The Dance of the Gipsies in Catalonia". Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. 1 (3): 156–165 [163–164]. JSTOR   4521045.
  7. ↑ Alford, Violet (March 31, 1932). "Some Pyrenean Folk Customs". Folklore. 43 (1): 42–60 [57–58]. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1932.9718426. JSTOR   1256456.


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