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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787122603321

Autore

Doubt Keith

Titolo

Through the window : kinship and elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina / / Keith Doubt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest, Hungary ; ; New York, New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

963-386-246-9

963-386-061-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Disciplina

305.40949742

Soggetti

Elopement - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Marriage - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Women - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Marriage customs and rites - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnians - Marriage customs and rites

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The study of elopement -- The liminality of elopement -- An extraordinary elopement -- Habitus in Bosnia -- Deciding in a blink -- The secret and elopement -- Elopement and ego-identity -- The risk of foreclosure in the arranged marriage -- Family folklore and elopement -- Affinal relations after elopement -- Bosnia's kin in Turkey -- Balkan ethnology -- Bosnian folk -- Ethnicity and nationality -- Accounting for Bosnian culture.

Sommario/riassunto

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.