Book
Being Muslim the Bosnian way: identity and community in a central Bosnian village
Princeton University Press • Princeton, New Jersey • Published In 1995 • Pages: xxi, 281
By: Bringa, Tone.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work deals primarily with the village of Dolina, Bringa's pseudonym for a mixed Muslim-Catholic community in central Bosnia which she studied in 1987-1988. This study presents '…a fascinating and persuasive account of how Muslim religion and ethnic identity was sustained and experienced in Bosnia prior to the collapse of the Yugoslav state and how the politics of gender and household inextricably shaped and constrained wider political and ethnoreligious identities' (p. xi). In the text Bringa discusses how family, marriage, and kinship networks emerge as the repository of social values in Bosnian Muslim society, and in the process how they mold wider political and social identities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Mode of marriage
- Nuptials
- Household
- Cult of the dead
- General character of religion
- Priesthood
- 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
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1987-1988
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1945-1993
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- village of 'Dolina', central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- NotesAdditional notes
- Tone Bringa
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-276) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95018059
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bosnians