Silvia Paggi, Université Côte d’Azur, LIRCES, Nice-France
ABSTRACT
his article is based on ethnographic fieldwork in visual anthropology focusing on the housing conditions of
Roma people in Europe, part of the Wor(l)ds which Exclude European project. The author, who made the seven
resulting ethnographic films, relates the general methodology of her work, and reports some testimony from
the people met in six countries: Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain and United Kingdom. Carried out
in 2013 and 2014, the visual research collected numerous hours of film, as well as photographic documentation.
The Italian Roma specialist Leonardo Piasere coordinated the entire project, while the author was responsible
for the visual anthropology part of the research, assisted by Valentina Bonifacio.
KEYWORDS
Visual anthropology, ethnographic film, Roma people, Gypsies, Gitanos, fieldwork methodology, participant
observation, documentary cinema.
