The Gypsies as indigenous groups: The Gabori Roma case in Romania

The article shows in which ways the Gabori, Roma of Transylvania, constitute the product and the producers of an autochthony they act in everyday life, within the community as well as in their relations with Others. The Gabor social organisation, based on kinship relations, seems in fact to be inseparable from regional geography and history. These 'traditional Gypsies' should thus be considered as natives, even if natives of a special kind.