Brazilian Calon Gypsies are highly mobile, as a result of financial opportunities, deaths and murders, conflicts with family members and marriages, evictions etc. Here I discuss dislocations over the course of 15 years from the point of view of one individual, changes in tent composition and the coming and going of people during my fieldwork as viewed from one locality, and the movements of members of one extended family during the same period. The high occurrence of violence among the Calons which I witnessed is linked to masculine values: honor, taking chances and showing expertise. It is possible to conclude that the Calon social organization is characterized by randomness, immanence and instability. Valorisation of uncertainty gives a feeling not only of vertigo but of repeated of an unfolding of future. This sociality in turn raises questions about temporality, geographical use of space, and about society.
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