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 189
... 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 since parents often went with their children to the dances ...
... 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 since parents often went with their children to the dances ...
Page 190
... parents are most likely to make arrangements with , or young men to meet , girls from families with whom they already have some sort of tie . Frequently an Orašac matron originally from a partic- ular village will recommend a girl from ...
... parents are most likely to make arrangements with , or young men to meet , girls from families with whom they already have some sort of tie . Frequently an Orašac matron originally from a partic- ular village will recommend a girl from ...
Page 219
... parents were short of money they bought us nice clothes . They bought a dress of dark blue fabric for my sister and gave her the twenty ducats which she wore as a maiden , for it was our custom that a girl shall wear ducats if her ...
... parents were short of money they bought us nice clothes . They bought a dress of dark blue fabric for my sister and gave her the twenty ducats which she wore as a maiden , for it was our custom that a girl shall wear ducats if her ...
Contents
The Setting | 1 |
Serbia and Orašac in the Nineteenth Century | 21 |
Orašac Village Today | 37 |
Copyright | |
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