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'''George Gmelch''' (born 1944 in New York) is an American anthropologist known for his research on Irish Travellers, return migration and the culture of a sport. Gmelch is married to fellow cultural anthropologist, and frequent collaborator, Sharon Bohn Gmelch. He is emeritus professor of [[anthropology]] at [[Union College]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Gmelch |url=https://www.union.edu/anthropology/faculty-staff/george-gmelch |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=Union College |language=en}}</ref> and the [[University of San Francisco]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Gmelch {{!}} University of San Francisco |url=https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/george-gmelch |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=www.usfca.edu}}</ref>. |
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⚫ | He is the author and co-author of sixteen books, including ''In the Field: The Work and Life of Anthropology''<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Gmelch |first1=George |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv6p467 |title=In the Field: Life and Work in Cultural Anthropology |last2=Gmelch |first2=Sharon Bohn |date=2018 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-28962-8 |edition=1 |jstor=10.1525/j.ctv6p467 }}</ref>'''' with Sharon Gmelch (University of California Press), ''Irish Travellers: The Unsettled Life''<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Gmelch |first1=Sharon Bohn |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5cg98t |title=Irish Travellers: The Unsettled Life |last2=Gmelch |first2=George |date=2014 |publisher=Indiana University Press |jstor=j.ctv5cg98t |isbn=978-0-253-01453-5}}</ref> with S Gmelch (Indiana), ''Double Passage: The Lives of Caribbean Migrants Abroad and Back Home''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fraser |first=Gertrude |date=1995 |title=Review of Double Passage: The Lives of Caribbean Migrants Abroad and Back Home; A Passage to England: Barbadian Londoners Speak of Home |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41849725 |journal=NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids |volume=69 |issue=3/4 |pages=376–380 |jstor=41849725 |issn=1382-2373}}</ref> (Michigan), and ''Tasting the Good Life: Wine Tourism in the Napa Valley''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Institution |first=Smithsonian |title=Tasting the good life : wine tourism in the Napa Valley / George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch |url=https://www.si.edu/object/siris_sil_1080090 |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Smithsonian Institution |language=en}}</ref> with S. Gmelch (Indiana), winner of the 2012 Gourmand International Award for the best book on wine tourism<ref>{{Cite web |last=Frigge |first=Jennifer |date=2012-02-15 |title='Tasting the Good Life' wins Gourmand Award |url=https://iupress.org/connect/blog/tasting-the-good-life-wins-gourmand-award/ |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Indiana University Press |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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== Early Life == |
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⚫ | After his sophomore year in college (1965) Gmelch signed a professional baseball contract with the Detroit Tigers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Garrity |first=Tanner |first4=Longevity |title=Do Baseball Players Have a Biological Need to Spit? |url=https://www.insidehook.com/wellness/why-do-baseball-players-spit |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=InsideHook |language=en-US}}</ref> Over the next few seasons he played on four minor league teams.<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Gmelch Minor Leagues Statistics |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=gmelch001geo |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> |
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== Career == |
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⚫ | Gmelch who had been writing monthly articles about life in the minor leagues for a home town California newspaper;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Humanities |first=National Endowment for the |title=The advance-star and green sheet. |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn97069136/ |access-date=2023-09-08}}</ref> then wrote a piece “Life in Rocky Mount with the Klan,” describing |
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⚫ | After his sophomore year in college (1965) Gmelch signed a professional baseball contract with the Detroit Tigers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Garrity |first=Tanner |first4=Longevity |title=Do Baseball Players Have a Biological Need to Spit? |url=https://www.insidehook.com/wellness/why-do-baseball-players-spit |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=InsideHook |language=en-US}}</ref> Over the next few seasons he played on four minor league teams.<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Gmelch Minor Leagues Statistics |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=gmelch001geo |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> Political scientists Peter Dreier and Rob Elias note in their book ''Baseball Rebels'', “...in the Carolina League towns Gmelch played in, he was shocked by the segregation and racism he observed... ...passing the general manager’s office before a game, he witnessed members of the Rocky Mount’s Chamber of Commerce reminding the ballclub’s General Manager that the town would not support the team if there were ‘too many colored boys in the starting lineup... Gmelch soon learned that the ball field itself was used by the local Ku Klux Klan for gatherings, and that the town’s police chief was a member of the Klan and his brother a Grand Dragon.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Drier |first1=Peter |title=Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America |last2=Elias |first2=Robert |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |year=2022 |isbn=978-1496217776}}</ref> |
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⚫ | Gmelch who had been writing monthly articles about life in the minor leagues for a home town California newspaper;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Humanities |first=National Endowment for the |title=The advance-star and green sheet. |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn97069136/ |access-date=2023-09-08}}</ref> then wrote a piece “Life in Rocky Mount with the Klan,” describing what he had witnessed including the police chief’s involvement in the Klan. A week later Gmelch was given his unconditional release.<ref name=":0" /> |
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Gmelch would later write many pieces and several books about the culture of baseball. While still a student (Stanford and [[University of California, Santa Barbara|UCSB]]), he wrote a paper on the rituals and superstitions of ballplayers. “Baseball Magic,” a test of a well -known theory of magic (Malinowski, 1948), became the feature article in Transaction (now Society) magazine<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gmelch |first=George |date=1971-06-01 |title=Baseball magic |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02908325 |journal=Trans-action |language=en |volume=8 |issue=8 |pages=39–41 |doi=10.1007/BF02908325 |issn=1936-4725}}</ref>. |
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⚫ | With ''In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Goodreads |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2350829 |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}</ref> (Smithsonian) Gmelch and his student J.J. Weiner wrote about the varied occupations and work of professional baseball. Subsequently, Gmelch described the culture of ballplayers in ''Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball'' (Smithsonian Press)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gmelch published Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball {{!}} Union College News Archives |url=https://muse.union.edu/newsarchives/2001/05/25/gmelch-published-inside-pitch-life-in-professional-baseball/ |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=muse.union.edu}}</ref> and then examined baseball cross-culturally in ''Baseball without Borders: An International Pastime'' (Nebraska)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1djmhqm |title=Baseball without Borders: The International Pastime |date=2006 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |doi=10.2307/j.ctt1djmhqm |jstor=j.ctt1djmhqm |isbn=978-0-8032-7125-8}}</ref>. Finally, he revisited his own baseball experiences in a memoir ''Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties'' (Nebraska)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Playing with Tigers |url=https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803276819 |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Nebraska Press |language=en-US}}</ref>. The latter was a finalist for the [[Casey Award]] for the best baseball book of 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Spitball Magazine - CASEY Award: Best Baseball Book |url=https://www.spitballmag.com/casey-award-best-baseball-book |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=www.spitballmag.com |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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As an undergraduate attending college (Stanford and USCB) during the offseason, Gmelch wrote a paper for an anthropology class on the rituals ballplayers use/ “Baseball Magic,” a test of a well -known theory of magic (Malinowski, 1948), became the feature article in ''Transaction''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gmelch |first=George |date=June 1971 |title=Baseball magic |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02908325 |journal=Society |volume=8 |issue=8 |pages=39–41 |doi=10.1007/bf02908325 |issn=0147-2011}}</ref> (now ''Society'') magazine and subsequently a classic in anthropology having been reprinted in dozens of anthologies in cultural anthropology, sociology, and religion.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Doherty |first=Bernard |date=2019 |title=Carole M. Cusack and Helen Farley, eds. Religion, The Occult, and the Paranormal |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/asrr20191015 |journal=Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=127–129 |doi=10.5840/asrr20191015 |issn=1946-0538}}</ref> |
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In 1971-72, he and his anthropologist wife Sharon spent a year living in a horse-drawn wagon in a camp on the outskirts of Dublin for their PhD research. His work on this nomadic group’s adaptation to urban life was published as ''The Irish Tinkers: The Urbanization of an Itinerant People'' (1977)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gmelch |first=George |url=http://archive.org/details/irishtinkersurba0000gmel |title=The Irish tinkers : the urbanization of an itinerant people |date=1977 |publisher=Menlo Park, Calif. : Cummings Pub. Co. |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-8465-2630-8}}</ref> and in a collaboration with Sharon Gmelch in ''Tinkers and Travellers''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gmelch |first=Sharon |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780773592902 |title=Tinkers and Travellers |last2=Langan |first2=Pat |date=1975-01-01 |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |isbn=978-0-7735-9290-2}}</ref> (1975), which won Ireland’s Book of the Year award in 1976<ref>{{Cite web |title=Traveller Collection |url=https://travellercollection.ie/items/5eb4417bf2ff151113f3e12b |access-date=2024-02-16 |website=travellercollection.ie}}</ref>. |
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⚫ | The Gmelchs’ return to Ireland in 2011 to look at how Irish Traveller culture had changed was the subject of an acclaimed two-part Irish TV documentary called “Unsettled – from Tinker to Traveller”<ref>{{Citation |title=Unsettled: From Tinker to Traveller |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41Wkzr6fic |access-date=2023-09-15 |language=en}}</ref>, and their book ''Irish Travellers: The Unsettled Life'' (Indiana)<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Gmelch |first1=Sharon Bohn |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5cg98t |title=Irish Travellers: The Unsettled Life |last2=Gmelch |first2=George |date=2014 |publisher=Indiana University Press |jstor=j.ctv5cg98t |isbn=978-0-253-01453-5}}</ref>, was published in 2014 |
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== Documentary Films == |
== Documentary Films == |
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With filmmaker Dennis Lanson, Gmelch has produced two films related to the remote Newfoundland fishing community of Bay de Verde where he conducted research between 2018 and 2020. The first film, “A Year in the Field,”<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Gmelch {{!}} DER Filmmaker Bio |url=https://www.der.org/resources/filmmaker-bios/george-gmelch/ |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=www.der.org |language=en-US}}</ref> looks at the research of a young Estonian anthropologist studying climate change in Newfoundland (2020) and is now distributed by Documentary Educational Resources (DER). The second film, “The Village at the End of the Road,” examines the aftermath of the collapse of Newfoundland’s cod fishery and its impact on the community. |
With filmmaker Dennis Lanson, Gmelch has produced two films related to the remote Newfoundland fishing community of Bay de Verde where he conducted research between 2018 and 2020. The first film, “A Year in the Field,”<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Gmelch {{!}} DER Filmmaker Bio |url=https://www.der.org/resources/filmmaker-bios/george-gmelch/ |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=www.der.org |language=en-US}}</ref> looks at the research of a young Estonian anthropologist studying climate change in Newfoundland (2020) and is now distributed by Documentary Educational Resources (DER). The second film, “The Village at the End of the Road,” examines the aftermath of the collapse of Newfoundland’s cod fishery and its impact on the community. |
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== Selected Books == |
== Selected Books == |
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Gmelch is the author or coauthor of 16 published books and over 100 articles. |
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<u>[https://www.worldcat.org/title/1013519276 In the Field: The Work and Life of Anthropology]</u>. (with S. Gmelch) University of California Press, 2018 |
<u>[https://www.worldcat.org/title/1013519276 In the Field: The Work and Life of Anthropology]</u>. (with S. Gmelch) University of California Press, 2018 |
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Revision as of 21:51, 16 February 2024
- Comment: This person appears to meet WP:NAUTHOR, but the amount of primary sources cited to document aspects of his life indicate that this draft is far too detailed. I would suggest you try to pare the article down to documenting that which has been noted in independent, reliable sources. Mach61 (talk) 14:53, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: Close but not quite enough independent, significant coverage. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 00:55, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
- Comment: Citation issues are still present, and also a lot of the descriptions of the subject seem to be puffed up and promotional via uncited claims that constitute original research. Utopes (talk / cont) 04:27, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
- Comment: Some more inline citations are needed. Take a look at WP:REFB for further info. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 22:15, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
George Gmelch (born 1944 in New York) is an American anthropologist known for his research on Irish Travellers, return migration and the culture of a sport. Gmelch is married to fellow cultural anthropologist, and frequent collaborator, Sharon Bohn Gmelch. He is emeritus professor of anthropology at Union College.[1] and the University of San Francisco[2].
He is the author and co-author of sixteen books, including In the Field: The Work and Life of Anthropology[3] with Sharon Gmelch (University of California Press), Irish Travellers: The Unsettled Life[4] with S Gmelch (Indiana), Double Passage: The Lives of Caribbean Migrants Abroad and Back Home[5] (Michigan), and Tasting the Good Life: Wine Tourism in the Napa Valley[6] with S. Gmelch (Indiana), winner of the 2012 Gourmand International Award for the best book on wine tourism[7]
Career
After his sophomore year in college (1965) Gmelch signed a professional baseball contract with the Detroit Tigers.[8] Over the next few seasons he played on four minor league teams.[9] Political scientists Peter Dreier and Rob Elias note in their book Baseball Rebels, “...in the Carolina League towns Gmelch played in, he was shocked by the segregation and racism he observed... ...passing the general manager’s office before a game, he witnessed members of the Rocky Mount’s Chamber of Commerce reminding the ballclub’s General Manager that the town would not support the team if there were ‘too many colored boys in the starting lineup... Gmelch soon learned that the ball field itself was used by the local Ku Klux Klan for gatherings, and that the town’s police chief was a member of the Klan and his brother a Grand Dragon.[10]
Gmelch who had been writing monthly articles about life in the minor leagues for a home town California newspaper;[11] then wrote a piece “Life in Rocky Mount with the Klan,” describing what he had witnessed including the police chief’s involvement in the Klan. A week later Gmelch was given his unconditional release.[10]
Gmelch would later write many pieces and several books about the culture of baseball. While still a student (Stanford and UCSB), he wrote a paper on the rituals and superstitions of ballplayers. “Baseball Magic,” a test of a well -known theory of magic (Malinowski, 1948), became the feature article in Transaction (now Society) magazine[12].
With In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People[13] (Smithsonian) Gmelch and his student J.J. Weiner wrote about the varied occupations and work of professional baseball. Subsequently, Gmelch described the culture of ballplayers in Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball (Smithsonian Press)[14] and then examined baseball cross-culturally in Baseball without Borders: An International Pastime (Nebraska)[15]. Finally, he revisited his own baseball experiences in a memoir Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties (Nebraska)[16]. The latter was a finalist for the Casey Award for the best baseball book of 2016.[17]
Irish Travellers
In 1971-72, he and his anthropologist wife Sharon spent a year living in a horse-drawn wagon in a camp on the outskirts of Dublin for their PhD research. His work on this nomadic group’s adaptation to urban life was published as The Irish Tinkers: The Urbanization of an Itinerant People (1977)[18] and in a collaboration with Sharon Gmelch in Tinkers and Travellers[19] (1975), which won Ireland’s Book of the Year award in 1976[20].
The Gmelchs’ return to Ireland in 2011 to look at how Irish Traveller culture had changed was the subject of an acclaimed two-part Irish TV documentary called “Unsettled – from Tinker to Traveller”[21], and their book Irish Travellers: The Unsettled Life (Indiana)[22], was published in 2014
Documentary Films
With filmmaker Dennis Lanson, Gmelch has produced two films related to the remote Newfoundland fishing community of Bay de Verde where he conducted research between 2018 and 2020. The first film, “A Year in the Field,”[23] looks at the research of a young Estonian anthropologist studying climate change in Newfoundland (2020) and is now distributed by Documentary Educational Resources (DER). The second film, “The Village at the End of the Road,” examines the aftermath of the collapse of Newfoundland’s cod fishery and its impact on the community.
Selected Books
Gmelch is the author or coauthor of 16 published books and over 100 articles.
In the Field: The Work and Life of Anthropology. (with S. Gmelch) University of California Press, 2018
Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City. 6/e. (with P. Kuppinger). Waveland Press, 2018
Playing with Tigers: A Minor-League Chronicle of the Sixties. University of Nebraska Press. 2016
Irish Travellers: The Unsettled Life (with S. Gmelch).Indiana University Press, 2014
Tasting the Good Life: Wine Tourism in the Napa Valley. (with S. Gmelch). Indiana University Press. 2011
Baseball without Borders: The International Pastime. University of Nebraska Press, 2006
Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball. University of Nebraska Press, 2006
In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People (with J. Weiner). 2/e University of Nebraska Press. 2006
Behind the Smile, the Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism. Indiana University Press. 2003
Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball. Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001
The Parish Behind God's Back: History and Culture in Rural Barbados (with S. Gmelch) The University of Michigan Press, 1997
Double Passage: The Lives of Caribbean Migrants, Abroad and Back Home. The University of Michigan Press, 1992
Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology (with W. Zenner). St. Martin’s Press. 1980.
J.M. Synge: In Wicklow, West Kerry, and Connemara (with A. Saddlemyer). Dublin: O'Brien Press; New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield. 1980.
To Shorten the Road: Folktales from Irish Travelling People (with B. Kroup). Toronto: Macmillan; Dublin: The O'Brien Press; New Jersey: Humanities Press. 1977.
The Irish Tinkers: Urbanization of an Itinerant People. New York: Cummings Press /Addison-Wesley, 1977. Japanese translation published in 1994 by Gendai Shokan, Tokyo.
- ^ "George Gmelch". Union College. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
- ^ "George Gmelch | University of San Francisco". www.usfca.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
- ^ Gmelch, George; Gmelch, Sharon Bohn (2018). In the Field: Life and Work in Cultural Anthropology (1 ed.). University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28962-8. JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctv6p467.
- ^ Gmelch, Sharon Bohn; Gmelch, George (2014). Irish Travellers: The Unsettled Life. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01453-5. JSTOR j.ctv5cg98t.
- ^ Fraser, Gertrude (1995). "Review of Double Passage: The Lives of Caribbean Migrants Abroad and Back Home; A Passage to England: Barbadian Londoners Speak of Home". NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 69 (3/4): 376–380. ISSN 1382-2373. JSTOR 41849725.
- ^ Institution, Smithsonian. "Tasting the good life : wine tourism in the Napa Valley / George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
- ^ Frigge, Jennifer (2012-02-15). "'Tasting the Good Life' wins Gourmand Award". Indiana University Press. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
- ^ Garrity, Tanner. "Do Baseball Players Have a Biological Need to Spit?". InsideHook. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
- ^ "George Gmelch Minor Leagues Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
- ^ a b Drier, Peter; Elias, Robert (2022). Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1496217776.
- ^ Humanities, National Endowment for the. "The advance-star and green sheet". Retrieved 2023-09-08.
- ^ Gmelch, George (1971-06-01). "Baseball magic". Trans-action. 8 (8): 39–41. doi:10.1007/BF02908325. ISSN 1936-4725.
- ^ "Goodreads". Goodreads. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
- ^ "Gmelch published Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball | Union College News Archives". muse.union.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
- ^ Baseball without Borders: The International Pastime. University of Nebraska Press. 2006. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1djmhqm. ISBN 978-0-8032-7125-8. JSTOR j.ctt1djmhqm.
- ^ "Playing with Tigers". Nebraska Press. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
- ^ "Spitball Magazine - CASEY Award: Best Baseball Book". www.spitballmag.com. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
- ^ Gmelch, George (1977). The Irish tinkers : the urbanization of an itinerant people. Internet Archive. Menlo Park, Calif. : Cummings Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-8465-2630-8.
- ^ Gmelch, Sharon; Langan, Pat (1975-01-01). Tinkers and Travellers. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-9290-2.
- ^ "Traveller Collection". travellercollection.ie. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
- ^ Unsettled: From Tinker to Traveller, retrieved 2023-09-15
- ^ Gmelch, Sharon Bohn; Gmelch, George (2014). Irish Travellers: The Unsettled Life. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01453-5. JSTOR j.ctv5cg98t.
- ^ "George Gmelch | DER Filmmaker Bio". www.der.org. Retrieved 2023-09-08.