Doubt Through the Window

Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-963-386-061-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

This book is not about war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, evil, or the killing of a society. It is about a cultural heritage, something vital to a society as a society, something that was not killed in the previous war, something that is resilient.

Through the Window brings an original perspective to folklore of Bosnians at a certain period of time and the differences and similarities of the three main ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It examines the transethnic character of cultural heritage, against divisions that dominate their tragic recent past.

The monograph focuses in particular on customs shared by different ethnic groups, specifically elopement, and affinal visitation. The elopement is a transformative rite of passage where an unmarried girl becomes a married woman. The affinal visitation, which follows, is a confirmatory ceremony where ritualized customs between families establish in-lawships These customs reflect a transethnic heritage shared by people in Bosnia as a national group, including Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doubt, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 The Study of Elopement

Chapter 2 The Liminality of Elopement

Chapter 3 An Extraordinary Elopement

Chapter 4 Habitus in Bosnia

Chapter 5 Deciding in a Blink

Chapter 6 The Secret and Elopement

Chapter 7 Elopement and Ego-Identity

Chapter 8 The Risk of Foreclosure in the Arranged Marriage

Chapter 9 Family Folklore and Elopement

Chapter 10 Affinal Relations after Elopement

Chapter 11 Bosnia’s Kin in Turkey

Chapter 12 Balkan Ethnology

Chapter 13 Bosnian Folk

Chapter 14 Ethnicity and Nationality

Chapter 15 Accounting for Bosnian Culture

Bibliography

Appendixes: Survey Report, Marco Index Bosnia Survey Question in English and Bosnian Qualitative Interview Protocol Consent Form in Bosnian

Über Autor(innen)

Doubt, Keith
Keith Doubt is Professor of Sociology at Wittenberg University, Ohio.