Through the Window : : Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina / / Keith Doubt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Doubt, Keith,
• MitwirkendeR: Slapšak, Svetlana,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword Elopement, Women and Happiness: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index