PhDr. Arne Mann, CSc.
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- Roma, family and social relations, family related ceremonies and rites, house and habitation, demography
- PhDr. Arne B. Mann, CSc. is a leading Slovak ethnologist and scholar of Romani studies. He completed his studies in ethnography at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, in 1978. He successfully defended his PhDr. degree in 1980 and obtained the CSc. (Candidate of Sciences) degree in 1997. From 1983, he worked as an independent research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. As a Romani studies scholar, he researched the history and customs of the Roma in Slovakia, including religion and belief, family and social relations, rites and customs, housing, and demographic development. In the final years of his career, he focused intensively on the topic of the Roma Holocaust. Dr. Mann is the author of dozens of scholarly studies and the editor of several collected volumes, such as Neznámi Rómovia. Zo života a kultúry Cigánov-Rómov na Slovensku (Unknown Roma. From the Life and Culture of Gypsies-Roma in Slovakia, Bratislava 1992); Boh všetko vidí / O Del sa dikhel. Duchovný svet Rómov na Slovensku (God Sees Everything / O Del sa dikhel. The Spiritual World of the Roma in Slovakia, Bratislava 2003); and Nepriznaný holocaust. Rómovia v rokoch 1939 – 1945 (The Unacknowledged Holocaust. The Roma in 1939 – 1945, Bratislava 2007), among others. He is also the author of the monographs Rómsky dejepis (Roma History, Bratislava 2000) and Rómski kováči na Slovensku / Roma Blacksmiths in Slovakia (Bratislava 2018). For his scholarly work on the Roma Holocaust, he was awarded a Commemorative Medal in 2003, presented by the President of the Slovak Republic and the Solidarita Foundation on the occasion of the Memorial Day for the Victims of the Holocaust and Racial Violence. In recognition of his contribution to improving the cultural and educational development of the Roma, he received the Romipen Award in 2014, granted by the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic and the Plenipotentiary of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Roma Communities on the occasion of World Roma Day.
