This book is an anthropological account of a group of middle and upper-class Gitanos and their ways of creating a 'society within society' based upon distinct cultural, moral and ideological values, notions and practices.

Marianne Blom Brodersen is a social anthropologist at Nord University, Norway. She has done research in Cuba and California, and more recently in Spain amongst urban Pentecostal Gitanos, Andalucian anarchists and rural villagers. She does ethnographic/phenomenological research and anthropological theorizing on rituals and their transformative powers, Pentecostalism, emotions and embodiment, artivism, alternative social organization, and social differentiation, "othering" and dehumanization.