A Serbian village in historical perspective
By: by Joel M. Halpern and Barbara Kerewsky Halpern.
Contributors: Halpern, Barbara.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Orašac (Serbia); Serbia -- Social life and customs
Notes: Bibliography: p. 149-152.
Table of contents: title: A land, a people. Sumadija Landscape -- A village boy -- Historical setting -- History reflected in folk epics -- Nineteenth-Century village life -- Pig trade and social origins -- The Turkish legacy -- The Zadruga. A classic account -- Historical background of Zadruga -- Household head -- Conflict in the Zadruga -- The Vamilija -- Zadruga size -- Demographic variables -- Relationship to household head -- Nuclear family relationships -- Lineal extension over generations -- A case study -- Familial cycles and modernization -- New forms -- Households, houses, and land -- Resources, economy, and changing occupations. The village and the national culture -- Early history -- The Nineteenth Century -- Ecological change -- Economic stagnation -- Some technological innovations -- Agriculture before the First World War -- Changes in agriculture -- The market town -- The founding of Arandjelovac -- Town and village merchants -- An urban view of village life -- Early migration from Orašac -- The village in wartime -- Serbian work values -- Town and village in retrospect -- Movements to town -- Peasant-workers -- Quantitative differences among vamilijas -- Modernization in peasant society -- An ex-peasant’s comments -- The peasant as employee -- Strains of families of peasant-workers -- Government planning -- Optimum private agriculture -- Living Out lives. Infancy -- Bringing up children -- Going to school -- Special role of grandparents -- Preparation for the future -- The choices -- Marriage as a contract -- Traditional courtship -- Contemporary courtship possibilities -- “Love, village style” -- Marriage arrangement -- A traditional wedding -- Jovan’s courtship and marriage -- Features of contemporary nuclear families -- Dyadic relationships -- Evaluating changes -- Death in the village -- Aspects of ritual life. Views of peasant life -- The Slava -- Easter -- Distinctions between the Slava and Easter -- Christmas -- St. George’s Day -- Secular holidays -- Rituals of Conflict -- Blood-brotherhood and godfatherhood -- Decline in formalized rituals -- Government De-emphasis -- Serbian values -- Some reflections on change. The studied and the student -- Evaluating revolution -- Workers abroad -- Yugoslav socialism -- The role of conflict -- The Revolution and the Second World War -- Results of revolution -- Reciprocal rural and urban influence -- Social and private sectors in the village -- Agriculture in Orašac : flexibility and social policy -- The peasant-worker in socialist planning -- The observer and his perceptions -- Interpreting change in Orašac -- Glossary -- Selected Readings.