A Serbian VillageHarper & Row, 1967 - 358 pages |
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Page 96
... meet because of the burden of taxes and necessity of buying a few essentials . 39 These two examples also illustrate a change in the use of money . Formerly the primary function of cash was to purchase land , for the more land a peasant ...
... meet because of the burden of taxes and necessity of buying a few essentials . 39 These two examples also illustrate a change in the use of money . Formerly the primary function of cash was to purchase land , for the more land a peasant ...
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 190
... 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 her vamilija to someone in her husband's clan or to a neighbor . In ...
... 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 her vamilija to someone in her husband's clan or to a neighbor . In ...
Contents
The Setting | 1 |
FIGURES | 17 |
Serbia and Orašac in the Nineteenth Century | 21 |
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