A Serbian VillageHarper & Row, 1967 - 358 pages |
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... important ; in fact , the standard greeting when one Šumadijan met another in the forest was , " Do you have acorns ? " Some writers go so far as to claim that since the better part of a household's labor force was engaged in herding ...
... important ; in fact , the standard greeting when one Šumadijan met another in the forest was , " Do you have acorns ? " Some writers go so far as to claim that since the better part of a household's labor force was engaged in herding ...
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... important livestock , fattened on the acorns in the then - abundant oak forests . Then , as the forest disappeared ... important holidays . It would seem that their numbers will decrease still further as the price of manu- factured ...
... important livestock , fattened on the acorns in the then - abundant oak forests . Then , as the forest disappeared ... important holidays . It would seem that their numbers will decrease still further as the price of manu- factured ...
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... important is shown by the fact that next in importance are daughters - in - law and grandchil- dren . There are thirty households where women are listed as heads . They are all widows with the exception of two rare cases where the women ...
... important is shown by the fact that next in importance are daughters - in - law and grandchil- dren . There are thirty households where women are listed as heads . They are all widows with the exception of two rare cases where the women ...
Contents
The Setting | 1 |
FIGURES | 17 |
Serbia and Orašac in the Nineteenth Century | 21 |
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