A Serbian VillageColumbia University Press, 1958 - 325 pages A 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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Page 184
... meet . A traditional courtship institution still very much in evidence is the prelo , or spinning bee . Each neigh- borhood customarily holds informal spinning bees attended by all the girls and many matrons of the komšiluk . During the ...
... meet . A traditional courtship institution still very much in evidence is the prelo , or spinning bee . Each neigh- borhood customarily holds informal spinning bees attended by all the girls and many matrons of the komšiluk . During the ...
Page 189
... meet at a dance and then seek their families ' permission . Parental consent is usually not too difficult to obtain . The only real objec- Meeting a girl at a fair or dance and marriage arranged by parents were not necessarily unrelated ...
... meet at a dance and then seek their families ' permission . Parental consent is usually not too difficult to obtain . The only real objec- Meeting a girl at a fair or dance and marriage arranged by parents were not necessarily unrelated ...
Page 259
... meet a friend of mine I would say , " There , friend , my dream came true , " or if I remain in the village to be a good farmer I would meet my friend with the words , " There was a fantasy , but it disappeared , and I remained a ...
... meet a friend of mine I would say , " There , friend , my dream came true , " or if I remain in the village to be a good farmer I would meet my friend with the words , " There was a fantasy , but it disappeared , and I remained a ...
Contents
The Setting | 1 |
Serbia and Orašac in the Nineteenth Century | 21 |
Orašac Village Today | 37 |
Copyright | |
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