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Serbian society in Karadjordje's Serbia: an anthropological view

Selected papers on a Serbian village : social structure as reflected by history, demography and oral traditionAmherst, Mass.Published In 1977 • Pages: 1-35

By: Halpern, Joel Martin, Hammel, Eugene A..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper is a demographic reconstruction of the social structure of Serbian peasant society in the nineteenth society with particular emphasis on developmental changes in the household. Using tools borrowed from the demographic analysis of mid-twentieth century societies, the authors attempt to estimate the ecological and demographic parameters in force at the time of the First Revolt of Serbs against their Turkish rulers in 1804, and to see how social structures might have functioned in that setting (p. 2). Much of the demographic reconstruction contained in this work is based on the statistical analysis of various types of records such as the census of Orasac in 1863, brief data on household heads for the period of 1818-1831, the Ottoman lists from 1528 and other fourteenth century reports. In addition these records have been supplemented with data obtained from oral traditional histories.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Demography
Traditional history
Household
Nuclear family
Extended families
Lineages
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Serbs
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
1997
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Europe
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Southeastern Europe
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
essay
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Ethnologist
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
John Beierle ; 1996
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
ca.1750-ca.1863
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Orasac Village, Serbia and Montenegro
NotesAdditional notes
by Joel M. Halpern, E. A. Hammel
Includes bibliographical references (p. 32-35)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
sf80001606
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Serbs