Thank you, Julia, will check out Hancock and see if I can find that. I also own a book called "Song of the Outcasts" about the gitanos in Andalusia, written by an English musician studying flamenco. Has anyone else here read that?

I still have not finished that book. I feel, she deserves more credit than some people here are ready give her, she seems to have done a lot of research on the subject and has a long bibliography at the end of the book. What put me off sometimes was the way she described their living conditions in Albania, it seemed to me sometimes like she was trying to make them look ridiculous which is not the way it should be done and I found it upsetting. Maybe a real ethnologist would have a different, more objective approach than a journalist.
I have started on the Hancock book, and even though he is a Roma and may know better than Fonseca, I sadly have to say, I do not enjoy that book. It is not well written, the language is very poor, the chapters seem to short , thin and not informative enough, and at the end of each chapter there are some "test questions" as though this is some kind of high school textbook and he is checking how much the kids understood and is asking them to summarise it. Actually, the whole book has the quality of high school composition and I am not happy with that. Authors should be qualified to write on a subject but they should also be good writers in order to catch and keep the reader's interest. Thanks for the recommendation, but sorry to have to tell you, I am disappointed.
Does anyone know any better books on the subject?