Abstract
Focusing on Sinti concepts of time, space, memory and respect, this paper explores the overlooked presence of Sinti in the Alps and their relationship to Alpine landscapes, which is closely linked to their relationship to their dead. Their way of making the world calls for a rethinking of concepts concerning the relationship between humans and land and opens up a different possibility for thinking about societies in the Alps. Since silence is a practice linked to Sinti memory and land, the question arises of how to write about these people. Drawing on the discussion of the concept of silence in the work of Patrick Williams, the paper interweaves ethnographic data from twenty-five years ago with more recent ethnographic archival research.