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Bride theft and social maneuverability in western Bosnia
Anthropological quarterly • 47 (3) • Published In 1974 • Pages: 253-269
By: Lockwood, William G..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this work Lockwood analyzes the relationship between social organization and alternative forms of marriage among rural Muslims of western Bosnia. The author presents the argument that elopment by being equated with actual bride theft, provides the most flexible and manipulative method of forming intra-household alliances (p. 253).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Termination of marriage
- Kin relationships
- Parents-in-law and children-in-law
- Siblings-in-law
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bosnian Muslims
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1966-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1968
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bugojno, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- NotesAdditional notes
- William G. Lockwood
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-269)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 32029126
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bosnians