We Do Not Speak of Them: Mourning Practices of the Manouche (Best Offer)
The Manouche gypsies of central France deal with the grief of death by refusing to talk about the deceased and otherwise avoiding things connected with them. Here are some details of their mourning practices (as described in the work of the anthropologist Patrick Williams), and some ideas about why they do things this way.

Submitted By Raya Wolfsun