A Serbian VillageHarper & Row, 1967 - 358 pages |
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... field techniques have become more frequent . Nevertheless , field methods still retain something of the aura of an occult art . These facts were brought home to the author as a fledgling anthropologist on his first major field research ...
... field techniques have become more frequent . Nevertheless , field methods still retain something of the aura of an occult art . These facts were brought home to the author as a fledgling anthropologist on his first major field research ...
Page 66
... fields . Late June is haying time , and then , during July , starts the big job of reaping the wheat . A scythe is the standard tool used , and under a blazing sun men laboriously cut swathes through the tall wheat . The women follow ...
... fields . Late June is haying time , and then , during July , starts the big job of reaping the wheat . A scythe is the standard tool used , and under a blazing sun men laboriously cut swathes through the tall wheat . The women follow ...
Page 68
... fields is not yet over . The wheat fields are plowed and later , in November , the grain is sown . Those who can fertilize their fields with manure do so , for artificial fertilizers are claimed to be " no good " and " too expensive ...
... fields is not yet over . The wheat fields are plowed and later , in November , the grain is sown . Those who can fertilize their fields with manure do so , for artificial fertilizers are claimed to be " no good " and " too expensive ...
Contents
The Setting | 1 |
FIGURES | 17 |
Serbia and Orašac in the Nineteenth Century | 21 |
Copyright | |
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