A Serbian VillageA condensed version of the author's doctoral dissertation published in 1956 under title: Social and cultural change in a Serbian village. |
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A blood - brother is most often sought when a person feels himself to be seriously ill and in danger of dying . Sometimes the relation is not even between the parties directly concerned , for a mother will occasionally seek a blood ...
A blood - brother is most often sought when a person feels himself to be seriously ill and in danger of dying . Sometimes the relation is not even between the parties directly concerned , for a mother will occasionally seek a blood ...
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If the old person is not a parent , grandparent , aunt , or uncle , his lot is usually a hard one , for he is considered an obligation and an unnecessary burden . One man whose old mother - inlaw , a widow , moved in with his household ...
If the old person is not a parent , grandparent , aunt , or uncle , his lot is usually a hard one , for he is considered an obligation and an unnecessary burden . One man whose old mother - inlaw , a widow , moved in with his household ...
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When the deceased is a young person and the grief very deeply felt , then the chants are personal and most poignant . This plaintive lament was chanted by a mother over the grave of her seven - year - old daughter : > Jao ...
When the deceased is a young person and the grief very deeply felt , then the chants are personal and most poignant . This plaintive lament was chanted by a mother over the grave of her seven - year - old daughter : > Jao ...
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Contents
The Setting | 1 |
Serbia and Orašac in the Nineteenth Century | 21 |
Peasant Plowing with Cows BY BRANKO SEVENTH GRADE | 28 |
Copyright | |
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According addition agricultural amount Arandjelovac basic become Belgrade boys bread bride brothers called century changes child church clan closely clothing common complete considered continued Cooperative course culture dance death dinars early economic especially fact farm father fields Figure four girls give grade half hand head hectares holdings holiday household important income increase labor land less living male marriage married means mother neighbors never older Orašac parents Party pattern peasants percent period person pigs play population prepare present priest region relatives remained Second Serbian serve sheep significant social sometimes Šumadija Table things town traditional true Turkish Turks United usually village Village Council wedding wife women workers World young Yugoslavia zadruga
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| Title | A Serbian Village A Serbian Village, Joel Martin Halpern Volume 4 of Human relations area files: Serbs |
| Author | Joel Martin Halpern |
| Illustrated by | Barbara Kerewsky Halpern |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press, 1958 |
| Length | 325 pages |
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