Waiting for Elijah

Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-856-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

Reihe: Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings

Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centered on the shared harvest feast of Elijah’s Day, the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle, the book shows how the fractured postwar landscape beckoned the return of communal life that entails such waiting. This seemingly paradoxical situation—waiting to wait—becomes a starting point for a broader discussion on the complexity of time set between cosmology, nationalism, and embodied memories of proximity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Had¿iMuhamedovi¿, Safet

HadžiMuhamedovic, Safet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: TIME AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Chapter 1. Schizochronotopia or Elijah’s Pitfall

Chapter 2. Time and Home

Chapter 3. Time and In-Other

Chapter 4. Time and Epic Residues

PART II: THE MANY FACES OF ELIJAH

Prelude: A River of Many Names

Chapter 5. The Georgics: An Extended Poetry of the Land

Conclusion: Waiting for Elijah

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

HadžiMuhamedovic, Safet
Safet HadžiMuhamedovic is Research Associate in Inter-Faith Relations at the University of Cambridge. He has conducted fieldwork in Bosnia, Palestine, and the Basque Country since 2009 and has been recipient of a number of prestigious research awards. He has previously taught at Goldsmiths and SOAS, University of London, Goethe University Frankfurt, and University of Bristol and has written on sacral landscapes, historicity, and political agency of “nonhuman” beings, and ontological approaches to the question of home.