Book
Homemade world of Zagaj
Sosialantropologisk institutt • (18) • Published In 1979 • Pages: xvii, 249
By: Minnich, Robert Gary.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an ethnography on peasant-farmer households in the Haloze region of Slovenia. Using the concept of 'indigenous technology' the author describes the material and social relationships of a settlement of small farms. Farmsteads (domaca gruda) are passed down intact to selected heirs -- not necessarily the oldest son -- accounting for a rural landscape that has remained unchanged for the last two hundred years. Although the farmstead is the exclusive domain of a nuclear family, its operation depends on the exchange of goods and services among other households and 'guest workers.' Minnich shows how a Christmas time pigsticking ritual and feast (furez) makes explicit the dependence of the nuclear family on a wider 'peasant' society. According to Minnich, an egalitarian peasant culture is evoked in the common skill of butchering, and for the day at least, the transfer of authority from the household head to the visiting 'head butcher.'
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Domesticated animals
- Inheritance
- Mutual aid
- Visiting and hospitality
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Slovenes
- 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
- Book
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 2/1974-12/1975, summer 1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1945-1975
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zagaj, West Haloze, Slovenia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert Gary Minnich
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn88017044
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Slovenes