essay
The complementarity of women's ritual roles in a patriarchal society
Papers on a Serbian village : 1986, by Joel M. Halpern, Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern • (14) • Published In 1986 • Pages: 42-62
By: Halpern, Barbara.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
According to Halpern there is a rich descriptive literature on ritual roles performed by women in various Balkan countries. In this work, by focusing on form and function in the carrying out of women's ritual roles in rural Serbia, Halpern believes that it is possible to go beyond mere description alone and suggests alternative explanations for gender differentiated ritual roles in Serbian society (p. 42). Additional information in the text relates to ritual roles for both men and women with specific references to role reversals under certain conditions. Halpern notes that although the limits of adaptability within Serbian social structure is characterized as relatively fixed, her field work with the Serbian villagers seems to indicate that sometimes it can be potentially receptive to various modes of change.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Burial practices and funerals
- 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
- 1953-1986
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1953-1986
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Serbia
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-62)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf85003125
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Serbs