Sarajevo under siege
Subtitle: anthropology in wartime
By: Ivana Macek.
Series: The ethnography of political violence
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780812241266
Subjects: Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina) -- History -- Siege, 1992-1996; Political violence -- Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Sarajevo
Description: "Sarajevo Under Siege offers a richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Moving beyond the shelling, snipers, and shortages, it documents the coping strategies people adopted and the creativity with which they responded to desperate circumstances." "Ivana Macek, an anthropologist who grew up in the former Yugoslavia, argues that the division of Bosnians into antagonistic ethnonational groups was the result rather than the cause of the war, a view that was not only generally assumed by Americans and Western Europeans but also deliberately promoted by Serb, Croat, and Muslim nationalist politicians. Nationalist political leaders appealed to ethnoreligious loyalties and sowed mistrust between people who had previously coexisted peacefully in Sarajevo. Normality dissolved and relationships were reconstructed as individuals tried to ascertain who could be trusted."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.