Arpan Roy, Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference (New Texts Out Now)

This book is the fruit of my fascination with Palestine, its culture, society, and its people, which began in 2004 and became professional in 2012 when I started researching Palestine as a MA student. In the beginning I was interested in more obviously politicized research questions, but it soon dawned on me that Palestine as a political problem, especially in anthropology, very often skips over the cultural and social base of the place.